A flood hydrology roadmap released today sets out a vision to help scientists and practitioners better predict future flood events and improve flood resilience across the UK.
The roadmap, which brings together the opinions of more than 100 experts from over 50 organizations, will improve the hydrological data, models and science that can be used to inform us about the risk of flooding our rivers, surface water, Adjust groundwater and reservoirs.
These models will underscore flood risk management for decades, with benefits for areas including:
- Design and maintenance of flood defenses;
- national and local flood risk assessment and mapping;
- the design and operation of flood forecasts and warning schemes;
- Design and operation of sustainable drainage systems; in the
- Understand the impact of climate change on future flood risk.
The roadmap will also help us understand the impact of climate change on flood risk and will support the modeling of past and future climate change impacts.
The Environment Agency has already secured £ 6.9 million over six years to deliver on the roadmap and is working with the Scottish Environment Agency, Natural Resource Wales, Northern Ireland Infrastructure Department and UK Research and Innovation to identify ways to further fund it.
Dr Sean Longfield, Lead Scientist on Flood and Coastal Risk Management Research, for the Environment Agency, and an author of the report, said:
This roadmap offers us a fantastic opportunity to better understand the science behind floods and will be a valuable tool to help us understand future flood risk.
The Environment Agency works hard to ensure that recommendations from the roadmap are followed so that we can develop the next generation of flood hydrology knowledge, methods, models and systems that underpin flood and coastal risk management for decades.
The roadmap is intended to cover England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland from 2021 to 2046. A Flood Hydrology Roadmap Governance Board has been established to ensure that the roadmap is taken forward.
It comes as the government doubled investment and flooding to a record £ 5.2 billion between 2021-2027, creating around 2,000 new flood and coastal defenses to better protect hundreds of thousands of properties across England.
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