Flooding Britain
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What\'s the best way to prevent flooding? Caz Graham finds out whether there might be environmental alternatives to building ever-higher flood defences. She talks to a campaign group in Kendal in Cumbria, where there are multi-million pound plans to build flood barriers through the town centre, and asks the Environment Agency whether there could be more imaginative alternatives. Is Natural Flood Management the answer? Caz talks to academics and experts to find out what new solutions there might be, and what other countries are doing.
Produced by Emma Campbell. \\nPhotograph by Stuart Atkinson.
CORRECTION 22/06/2020\\nIn the programme we said: "Those with doubts about the Environment Agency\\u2019s walls point to alternative strategies like Natural Flood Management \\u2013 which holds water further upstream, slowing the flow into town, so the flood peak is lower. That\\u2019s phase 3 of the Environment Agency\\u2019s plan, and gets a tiny fraction of the \\xa376 million budget \\u2013 just \\xa3800,000." In fact the \\xa3800,000 for Natural Flood Management is actually in addition to the overall budget.
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