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UK Struggles to Protect Fund Flood Zones

The UK Environment Agency has no easy task. With massive rises in national debt – public cash for high cost flood defence systems is proving difficult to find.

With much of the east coast of England now a flood zone – under threat from the north sea, the Environment Agency (EA) has a tough job prioritising funds for maintaining and building new flood defences.

The EA has spent the last few years trying to establish where flood defences can be abandoned causing the least impact – socially and financially.