Flooding the headlines...
Solutions:
Reforestation…
Planting trees is never bad! This way they
will stabilise soil and also hold back water
from percolating through soil, thus lessening the effects of heavy rainfall! In effect
they will slow down the rate at which
ground water travels!
Species re-introduction…
As aforementioned beavers are natural engineers, building dams . Building dams upland to create habitats full of water for
themselves will once again slow the flow of
water, this time above ground, if a reintroduction scheme occurs land will need to be
allocated.
Land allocation…
Allocating land that can be flooded is key in
preventing flooding of areas that are vulnerable. If subsidies are given to low value rural land owners to flood their fields it could
aid in preventing the impacts that flooding
has on developed areas.
Don’t build on flood plains…
Really this is the most obvious one, simply
halt human development, unfortunately
this is also the most unlikely solution. By
not building on marshland and wetlands
natural areas that absorb water are free to
do what they naturally would have done
without human interference!