Talk:Land reclamation

Yunzhong Hou wrote:
 * "Maybe sometime in the future there would be a bill preventing land reclamation, based on the fact that when one creates land from the sea, the water will be displaced, resulting in the flooding of another's property. Even though this phenomenon will be indetectable for any particular plot of land, billions of people doing this simultaneously could result in devastating deluges."

User:JC replied:
 * The scope for reclaiming land in the current fashion (draining marshes) is limited by the geography of costal areas - there are only so many suitable areas. To extend out further over the continental shelf and oceans will more likely use floating pontoons.  The amount of water displaced, even were the entire surface of all the worlds oceans to be covered, would still be tiny, and other problems, such as the change in moisture content of the atmosphere would be far more significant.