Since February 2010 the Environment Agency has been pioneering new tests for flood protection products which could protect homes across England and Wales. Here Tony Andryszewski, Flood Manager at the Environment Agency, describes how this work is giving householders and organisations greater confidence in reducing their flood risk.
Five million people live with the threat of being flooded from the river and sea and 200,000 of those are considered to be at very high risk. In addition as yet there is no definitive number for those who are at risk of flooding from urban drainage. Baring in mind that approximately two thirds of the insurance claims from the catastrophic floods of summer of 2007 were from this form of flooding, it’s no wonder the insurance industry is jittery about the amount they have to pay out for flood damage.
Over the past 20 years Britain’s national infrastructure has undergone a dramatic transformation, writes Dr Marc Hobell of Ordnance Survey. As a society we have moved on from a moderate dependence on a series of loosely coupled systems and assets. We now live with a near complete dependency on huge networks of distributed goods and services.
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