The US built nearly 2,000 km of Mississippi River levees to control floods; the barriers cut sediment off from Louisiana wetlands, helping erase about 4,900 sq km of coastal land

Nearly 2,000 kilometres of levees built along the Mississippi River over the past century helped protect cities and farmland from major floods. But the barriers also caused one of North America's most serious ecological losses.

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