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What is the purpose of channeling a river, to make it move water more quickly. Moving water more quickly is also called draining water more effectively, If it draining water more quickly the land around it gets drier.
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Channelizing a river keeps it from overflowing its banks as often, which prevents flooding. However, wetlands need a certain degree of said flooding to function as a biome.
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