The Environment Agency (EA) have just published their 5 year strategy for 2010 onwards. It includes a series of measures aimed at safeguarding from flooding and tackling climate change over the next five years.
The EA plans include protecting an additional 200 000 properties in England and Wales from costal erosion and flooding by 2015.
Plans to protect more homes from flooding are to be welcomed. But is it enough investment? The EA states that over half a million homes are at high risk of flooding from the rivers and seas. Risk is a concept that the general public struggle to understand. If the appropriate level of investment to protect homes are to be made (and justified in a tough economic climate) the industry needs to get better at explaining what high risk really means to the public.
The Environment Agency (EA) have just published their 5 year strategy for 2010 onwards. It includes a series of measures aimed at safeguarding from flooding and tackling climate change over the next five years.
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