Paddle, anyone? After the damage wreaked over the past fortnight in northern England by storms Eva and Frank, flood supremos in the UK have ordered an overhaul of the way the country handles flooding. "We will need to have a complete rethink. We will need to move from not just providing better defences, but also looking at increasing resilience,'' said David Rooke, deputy chief executive of the Environment Agency earlier this week. The agency is mulling updating flood defences such as barriers and walls and making cities and homes better able to cope with more rainfall and flooding, seen as inevitable because of global warming.
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