New approaches to flood prevention can drive innovative design

摘要

The Met Office declared 2012 to be the wettest year in England and the second wettest in the whole of the UK in the past 100 years. Similarly, The Guardian reported that 'days of extreme rainfall - downpours which are expected once every 100 days - occurred every 70 days in 2012.' With extreme events becoming more commonplace, we must start to design for a wetter future today.