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Mainland U.K. water network.
Mainland U.K. should have a network water system to prevent recent situations where some parts of the country have a drought while other areas suffer from flooding.
The National Audit Office states that the government is failing to improve flood defenses and that two thirds of England`s flood defenses are not properly maintained.
The USA are currently working on a water management project in the Florida everglades covering 18,000 square miles, approximately 36% the size of England. The everglades project (CERP) is designed to protect a very sensitive ecosystem as well as meeting the needs of farmers, tourism and the general population. What we need in the UK is very much simpler and should be considered as essential to our infrastructure. The costs involved should not be a significant reason to delay if the costs of recent floods and droughts are considered, together with the highly probable and plausible threat of more to come. The ideal solution would include improving the canal network and easing river extraction by the water companies – which have caused many problems in the past to our natural rivers. We could also build new flood plains where required as wetland and amenity lakes/reservoirs.
We need a plan to cover the whole country, in conjunction with each water company`s future plans, that is able to cope with the latest record breaking floods and the areas of persistent water shortages. It is time to stop patching up existing inadequate defenses, ignoring droughts and to do things properly.
