Taiyuan was deliberately flooded several times, including in 453 BC and 969 AD.

The fort is still in fair condition, however the magazine level seems to have been deliberately flooded to minimise access and vandalism.

From left to right she could see the rest of her family, bending over in the deliberately flooded field, gathering the golden stalks of the long grains.

Watermeadows are grasslands that are deliberately flooded for short periods.

The facility was decommissioned and deliberately flooded in 2010 to perform on final experiment to examine how mine seals work in a water environment.

During that same year, the university came within hours of being deliberately flooded as officials contemplated blowing floodgates to avoid a massive levee failure in Sacramento.

The town was deliberately flooded by the Venezuelan government in 1985 to build a hydroelectric dam.

Even now, local farmers around Axholme regard the 'warped land' which was deliberately flooded with silt as the best land in the region.

It was deliberately flooded for diving purposes.

According to government fighters, the area had been deliberately flooded to slow them as they cleared the last streets under Gaddafi control.