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Cutting-edge technology being used to help prepare for future droughts
This guide explains the problems and risks which may come from extreme weather, how to mitigate them and how you can make your reservoir more resilient. You can read each section in isolation, or as a whole document.
The dangers of flash flooding and how to stay safe.
Record dry spring and summer heatwaves mean that without winter rain there will be drought next year with impacts on nature, agriculture and navigation
Above-average rainfall has put Bristol, Somerset, Dorset and part of south Gloucestershire into ‘recovery’ but part of Wiltshire still in prolonged dry weather.
Groundwater flooding, how it might affect you and what to do.
Report a cause of flooding: who to contact for burst water mains, flooded sewers, public drains, roads, rivers
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
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