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Sink or Swim

In the last 20 years alone, more than two billion people have been affected by catastrophic flooding, while damages have run into the hundreds of billions of dollars. As global warming continues and sea levels rise, scientists fear the situation will only get worse.

Dr. Elizabeth English, an associate professor at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture in Ontario, believes the solution is an engineering technology called amphibious housing.

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