hardwood wrote:Waititu is right from an engineering point of view but wrong from a legal perspective. He is right that a river can be tamed or moved a few meters away or canalized so that development and nature can coexist. This has been done in many countries where the rivers, lakes, and even oceans have been tamed. The only problem is that our laws do not allow that and land allocations and developments on riparian land are illegal.
A good engineer would advise you to leave the river where it is. Any other engineer will tell you to move the river. What he certainly does not know or won't tell, is that, engineering knows not what to do when mother nature decides to revisit it's course; Here is an example from America, with all it's resources and best engineering brains and practices;