This morning I found on the World Wide Web many aerial photographs of flooded areas not far from Zagreb. Most of them are along the Sava and its tributaries. Taken from helicopter yesterday morning, when the sky was cloudless, the photographs are mazing to behold. But one thing is obvious at first glance: the flooded villages along the rivers are way too close to the riverbanks. In olden times, they would never be located on the floodplains and thus exposed to the risk of flooding. It is obvious that most flooding problems nowadays have to do with fundamental errors in location, which ultimately point to the government authorities that stand behind spatial or physical planning. And this is true of flooding all over the world. As the number of people grows, a growing number of them are located in areas that were once considered off limit. Regulation of rivers only adds to the problem, as it is based on statistics that have little or nothing to do with climate change. In the future, rivers will break their banks ever more often. And flooding will be in the news all the while.