Keeping new orleans dry: Additional diesel-driven water pumps and new gensets installed in region's dewatering system

摘要

Flood protection is a major concern in the United States city of New Orleans, in Louisiana and throughout the city's entire metro area. And no wonder, the entire area of 1.3 million people live literally in a bowl below sea level Every drop of rain that is not absorbed by the earth must be pumped out of the area into surrounding waterways such as the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain Otherwise, the area becomes permanently flooded and uninhabitable.