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Letter: Editor's reply to "Dammed floods"

Published 10 December 2014

• Hadfield notes that some of the most serious flooding along the Yangtze is generated downstream of the dam, and there is a debate about whether the dam will be a blessing or a curse in terms of flooding. Sadly there was no room to include this in the article.

Issue no. 2999 published 13 December 2014

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