Working in partnership to enhance approaches to surface water risk management

In recent years, record rainfall events nationally and internationally have served to underline the threat of surface water flooding, particularly to our cities and urban areas, writes Caroline Douglass, Environment Agency Executive Director of Flood and Coastal Risk Management. Examples including London, New York and more recently Dubai, have all been subjected to widespread disruption from surface water flooding from extreme rainfall. In July 2021, some parts of London received more than...