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A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land. The European Union (EU) Floods Directive defines a flood as a covering by water of land notnormally covered by water. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Flooding may result from thevolume of water within a body of water, such as a river or lake, which overflows or breaks levees, with the result that some of the water escapes itsusual boundaries, or may be due to accumulation of rainwater on saturated ground in an areal flood. While the size of a lake or other body of waterwill vary with seasonal changes in precipitation and snow melt, it is not a significant flood unless such escapes of water endanger land areasused by man like a village, city or other inhabited area. Floods can also occur in rivers, when flow exceeds the capacity of the river channel,particularly at bends or meanders. Floods often cause damage to homes and businesses if they are placed in natural flood plains of rivers. While flooddamage can be virtually eliminated by moving away from rivers and other bodies of water, since time out of mind, people have lived and worked by thewater to seek sustenance and capitalize on the gains of cheap and easy travel and commerce by being near water. That humans continue to inhabitareas threatened by flood damage is evidence that the perceived value of living near the water exceeds the cost of repeated periodic flooding.