Paris at High Risk from Flood: OECD

The OECD said that the Paris region would be highly vulnerable to exceptional flooding of the River Seine, warning that a once-a-century event would cripple France's commercial, political and cultural hub. Roads, rail, sewerage, electricity and water systems would be knocked out across much of the Ile-de-France region, which accounts for a third of France's economic activity, it said. A repeat of the city's costliest flood, in 1910, would affect up ...