Surface water - Environment Agency chief warns UK’s biggest flood risk is growing

Friday, October 26, 2018

Sir James Bevan KCMG, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, has warned that surface water is the UK’s biggest flood risk and highlighted potentially dire consequences if action is not stepped up to tackle the issue.

He warned his audience that surface water flooding is a risk which is growing - an increasing population with more people in cities means more people are at risk. Development also meant fewer places for rainwater to drain safely away, while more frequent and intense rainfall as a result of climate change will make flash flooding and overloading of the sewer network more likely and more frequent.

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