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UK floods: Raise roads and redesign houses, engineers say
2014-02-25 10:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Houses should be redesigned, roads raised and tidal lagoons built that generate energy to reduce the impact of flooding in the UK, according to a panel of senior engineers and academics. Recent flooding has affected large parts of southern England in the UK's wettest winter on record - particularly the Somerset Levels and Thames valley, resulting in more than 5,000 homes and businesses being flooded, major road and rail networks disrupted, and a political row over who is to blame. "In some...
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