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Or build a few dams here and there. Doesn't seem very hard to do.

I'm sure it would be much more effective to go full Netherlands on Manhattan and set up dikes and seawalls and pumps.

Hello, Reinhardt Gehrke here from Deutche Bank Municipal Bonds. We got the the RFP you sent around. We are eager to be of service of course, but is this a misprint? You want to borrow trillions of dollars for infrastructure projects?

I don't think it would be prohibitively expensive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg_Dam to compare to - 15mi of dams built for a much less wealthy city.

At New York prices it would be... http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/23/where-the-secon...

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