Imagine, after the 1974 floods of Brisbane, the Council forefathers went: "Right, that's it!  We're going to redirect the river around the city so that terrible flooding doesn't happen ever again".  It sounds inconceivable doesn't it?  But that's exactly what happened in Valencia after the floods of 1957. The floods devastated the city and 81 … Continue reading It takes big balls to divert a river – Valencia