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Wetlands are natural detention basins. They store excess rainwater and release it gradually.
Yet urban expansion has frequently converted wetlands, ponds, lakes and low-lying areas into roads or real estate.
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Paper: GS-3
Theme: Environment
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The result is a double loss: the city loses water-storage capacity while simultaneously increasing impermeable surface area.
Wetland conservation is therefore not merely an environmental objective it is urban flood infrastructure.
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