How can we address the challenge of flooding and drought?
Your latest stories addressing flooding and drought
Paludiculture
Allowing rewetted peatlands to be productively used.
South Lakeland
Biodiversity loss
Carbon emissions
Flooding & drought
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Energy
Avon Needs Trees
Reforesting the Bristol-Avon catchment area.
Wiltshire
Biodiversity loss
Carbon emissions
Flooding & drought
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Biodiversity & Nature
The Living Coast Rain Gardens
Greening urban infrastructure to adapt better to flood risks and improve water quality.
Brighton and Hove
Biodiversity loss
Flooding & drought
Health & wellbeing
Biodiversity & Nature
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Tamar Catchment Partnership
Improving farming practices in the River Tamar for a more resilient catchment ecosystem.
Cornwall
Carbon emissions
Flooding & drought
Food security & supply
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Biodiversity & Nature
Greening Stevenson Square
Planting trees and making green roofs to revive, cool and protect urban areas.
Manchester
Biodiversity loss
Carbon emissions
Flooding & drought
Biodiversity & Nature
Built Environment
Pumlumon Project
Reviving uplands in Wales for environmental and economic sustainability.
Powys
Biodiversity loss
Carbon emissions
Flooding & drought
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Biodiversity & Nature
Think big locally
Why flooding and drought?
Climate change is water change. Increasingly, we face the threat of too much or too little water in many places across the UK. To reduce water scarcity, it is critical to find a balance between our multiple demands on the water supply and the need to maintain a healthy natural environment that supports life. Perversely, flooding is also one of our biggest potential civil emergencies . One-in-seven homes and businesses facing some form of flood risk in England alone, compounded by surface water flooding from hard surfacing. We don’t have to look far to see how closely climate change and water are linked: the impact is being felt directly and locally.
Blue Green City Of The Future
The Living With Water partnership is working with the people of Hull to protect the city and wider area from flooding, putting resilience and community regeneration at the heart of everything they do.
Initiatives addressing flooding and drought
Paludiculture
Allowing rewetted peatlands to be productively used.
South Lakeland
Biodiversity loss
Carbon emissions
Flooding & drought
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Energy
Avon Needs Trees
Reforesting the Bristol-Avon catchment area.
Wiltshire
Biodiversity loss
Carbon emissions
Flooding & drought
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Biodiversity & Nature
The Living Coast Rain Gardens
Greening urban infrastructure to adapt better to flood risks and improve water quality.
Brighton and Hove
Biodiversity loss
Flooding & drought
Health & wellbeing
Biodiversity & Nature
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Tamar Catchment Partnership
Improving farming practices in the River Tamar for a more resilient catchment ecosystem.
Cornwall
Carbon emissions
Flooding & drought
Food security & supply
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Biodiversity & Nature
Greening Stevenson Square
Planting trees and making green roofs to revive, cool and protect urban areas.
Manchester
Biodiversity loss
Carbon emissions
Flooding & drought
Biodiversity & Nature
Built Environment
Pumlumon Project
Reviving uplands in Wales for environmental and economic sustainability.
Powys
Biodiversity loss
Carbon emissions
Flooding & drought
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Biodiversity & Nature
Devon and Cornwall Soils Alliance
Build capacity and capability in soils advice across Devon and Cornwall.
West Devon
Biodiversity loss
Flooding & drought
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Biodiversity & Nature
Upstream Thinking (UST)
Reducing and mitigating pressures impacting on water quality of Westcountry rivers at the source.
Cornwall
Biodiversity loss
Carbon emissions
Flooding & drought
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Biodiversity & Nature
Cambridge Open Eco Homes
Inspiring householders to make big carbon cuts in home energy.
Cambridge
Carbon emissions
Flooding & drought
Health & wellbeing
CABB Garron Plateau
Restoring Northern Ireland's largest expanse of blanket bog.
Causeway Coast and Glens
Biodiversity loss
Carbon emissions
Flooding & drought
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Biodiversity & Nature
Llangattock Community Woodlands Group
Conserving, protecting and improving small woodlands
Powys
Biodiversity loss
Flooding & drought
Biodiversity & Nature
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Plant Pembrokeshire
Planting 1,300 trees in Pembrokeshire to improve ecosystem resilience.
Pembrokeshire
Biodiversity loss
Carbon emissions
Flooding & drought
Land Use, Food & Agriculture
Biodiversity & Nature