It will only get worse.
They are still building thousands of houses on flood plains everywhere.
Got a letter last week saying that to the left of the Penwortham Bypass ( as going towards Leyland ) they are building 1,000 + houses on Green Belt land.
The land owner must have known someone that knows someone that knows someone because the fields there are that wet they don`t even put livestock on them.
I agree Rob more and more houses are planned earmarked for flood plains and green belt which feeds us .Traditionally, towns and cities being built on rivers have of course grown into the modern conurbations we see today, obviously the rivers back then were the arteries of the country. Also land reclamation has put humans where they were never meant to be. That with the rapidly expanding population is a recipe for disaster.
Unfortunately, people want/have to live where industry is thriving, so no easy answers I'm afraid.
We need to be building storm drains with so much land being covered.
I genuinely believe in Mother Nature holds all the answers she has been around far longer than humans as a species and be around afterwards, she has beaten every threat so far and can’t see that changing man and human interference is akin to a parasite...she has never lost....it might all sound a bit bizarre bordering like a religious view but I am convinced she holds all the key answersNo, we need to reduce the size of human population.
I guess if the flooding gets really, really bad it might do some of the job for us.