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The dangers of flash flooding and how to stay safe.
A study to help Public Health England (PHE) understand the impact of flooding on health and wellbeing.
Flooding presents a number of risks to health. This guidance helps professionals and the public address those risks and clean up safely.
What to do if you’re about to be flooded and during flooding: who to contact, how to stay safe, how to report a problem.
Support if you’ve been flooded: how to clear up, dispose of contaminated items and sandbags, repair your property.
Rolling updates on flooding impacts from Storm Babet in England.
Foresight project looking at the risks to the UK from flooding and coastal erosion over the next 100 years.
How to prepare for a flood: who to contact, how to protect your property, get insurance.
A guide to adapting your home or business to flooding, and how to pump water out of your property after a flood.
Report a cause of flooding: who to contact for burst water mains, flooded sewers, public drains, roads, rivers
What flood alerts and flood warnings mean and what you should do when they're issued.
How to prepare and what to do if you’re affected by extreme weather and natural hazards while travelling or living abroad.
This paper analyzes the effect of large scale floods, which displaced at least 100,000 people each, in over 1,800 cities in 40 countries, from 2003-2008.
Find out if there’s flooding in your area: flood warnings, flood alerts plus river, sea and groundwater levels.
Advises how to take account of and address the risks associated with flooding and coastal change in the planning process.
How the Environment Agency and partners responded to the flooding of winter 2015, and action plans to protect affected communities.
Introducing 3 innovative programmes to improve resilience to flooding and coastal change.
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