11 Aug 2016
Last week this blog covered four articles on Cities and Water: Flooding, Green Infrastructure, SuDS, Resilience, Awareness & Climate change. This week another four case studies from Richard Ashley highlighting the way cities across the world a reframing and transforming the urban environment to meet the challenges of water, flooding and climate change in a […]
04 Aug 2016
Thanks to Richard Ashley for these four articles Urban adaptation to climate change in Europe 2016 — Transforming cities in a changing climate EEA Report No 12/2016 This report builds on and complements existing products and initiatives on urban adaptation in Europe. It focuses on the state of actions in the field and progress achieved […]
18 May 2016
The Environment Agency has published an independent report commissioned to investigate how water got into the Foss Barrier Pumping Station in York on 26 December 2015. On Boxing Day, more than 600 homes and businesses were affected when exceptionally high rainfall and river levels led to extensive flooding in the city of York. The Environment […]
08 Mar 2016
1. Enabling resilience in the water sector The Defra report is described as a roadmap which sets out how the policy framework will be enhanced during this Parliament to secure the long-term resilience of the water sector in dealing with pressures like climate change and a growing population. 2. Water supply and resilience and infrastructure: […]
10 Feb 2016
The winter droughts preceding the London Olympics of 2012 caused considerable concern. Lessons from around the world including this highly informative site on the California drought highlight the difficulty in managing water resources once the full scale of the drought has hit. Strategic Infrastructure and Water Resilience The Environment Agency has released a Strategic Infrastructure […]
03 Feb 2016
National flood resilience review: call for evidence: Consultation description Defra are seeking published evidence that we can use in the national flood resilience review, announced in December 2015. This call for evidence focuses on the need to carry out an assessment of the damage that extreme rainfall could cause across England. We’re looking for people […]
14 Dec 2015
The Cumbria floods have prompted this cross – departmental (integrated?) review in to resilience and flooding; even in their press release they seem to have become aware of ‘upstream solutions’. Defra ‘Environment Secretary announces work to identify additional flood protection measures in Cumbria Work to identify additional flood protection measures for Cumbrian communities affected by […]
09 Dec 2015
Ofwat ‘The publication by Ofwat (Tuesday 1 December) of the report of the Resilience Task and Finish Group is a significant step for the sector as we seek to ensure that our services are resilient, now and in the future. We are pleased that the report recommends a water and wastewater resilience action group to […]
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