Sentence examples for natural flood from inspiring English sources

"The government has failed to spend a single extra penny on natural flood management".

Natural flood management schemes aim to slow the movement of water downstream to prevent flooding.

Last week's spending review saw £15m invested in natural flood management.

Even the government recognises the value of such "natural" flood defences.

Imagine there was then a huge natural flood, and the leader responded by ramping up the attacks.

According to FoE, Defra had commissioned the Environment Agency to propose natural flood management projects totalling £20m.

But the scientists warned that natural flood defences would need to be combined with conventional prevention techniques.

The Pickering project was one of three natural flood management trials set up after the severe floods of 2007.

Conservationists have advocated the restoration of more natural flood barriers, rather than the construction of man-made ones.

It is home to 150,000 people, all living in a compact zone between mountains and sea that has long since lost its natural flood-control and water-filtration system, the marshes now occupied by the concrete jungle of Waikiki.

Agricultural uses restrain such mechanisms, eliminating the mosaic of soil environments and vegetation patches in natural flood-plains.