Including the closely related terms flooding, flood, and flood risk.
… County Council (SCC) through the flood risk partnership board to ensure areas within Waverley which have a high frequency flooding receive the protection to reduce the impact. Waverley sees the benefits of natural flood risk management during the preparedness phases. This management system has been proven by other projects across the UK as not only an effected way of slowing run-off…
… Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in their October 2018 report warned that it would take an international effort to limit global warming to 1.5°C. However humanity is falling far short of the action necessary to limit warming to even 2°C. To fail would result in increasing episodes of large-scale water and food shortages, widespread flooding, heat-related morbidity and large scale destruction…
… avoid the worst impacts. The council will prepare for extreme weather events including: increased temperatures with risks to health from heat waves, increased risk of wild fires, greater pressure on water resources, surface water and fluvial flooding and damage to existing natural habitats. Many of the council’s services are likely to be impacted by the predicted increase…
… intensity rainfall over prolonged periods of time leading to surface water, groundwater and fluvial flooding. Summers will be hotter and drier which could result in droughts and an increased the risk of wildfires. A more resilient Borough: Waverley is aware that resilience can be increased during both the disaster preparedness phases and the disaster response phases. In the same way…
… assessing, identification of vulnerable people, warning and informing and facilitating the action of the local public to protect themselves. To mitigate against economic and energy risks, local generation of renewable energy through community energy projects should be facilitated. 12 To mitigate the risk from flooding the council will work with the Environment Agency and Surrey…