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Azienda News:
- Commission publishes new flood risk areas viewer to raise awareness . . .
The viewer shows the areas of potential significant flood risk, along with additional information and weblinks It provides a single gateway to all Member States’ preliminary flood risk assessments, flood hazard and risk maps, and flood risk management plans in the national language s
- Floods - Environment - European Commission
EU measures to manage flood risk and the risks floods pose to human health and the environment
- Implementation Reports - Environment - European Commission
A Commission report to the European Parliament and the Council on the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (assessment of the second River Basin Management Plans) and the Floods Directive (assessment of the first Flood Risk Management Plans) and an Annex with recommendations to all Member States on both Directives
- Water Framework Directive - Environment - European Commission
Setting out rules to halt deterioration in the status of EU water bodies and achieve good status for Europe’s rivers, lakes and groundwater
- Belgium - Environment - European Commission
Efforts are underway to boost flood resilience For instance, in Brussels, plans involve facilitating better rainwater infiltration into the soil, which is currently hindered by over-construction in the capital In Wallonia, new flood prevention have been approved, to help prevent a repeat of the catastrophic floods in 2021
- Will more frequent river floods cause widespread malfunction of . . .
They modelled ten-thousands of flood combinations, and their impact on road-network performance They used a uniform 100-year flood map, from which they sampled combinations of small flood events, across all countries For a given location, such an event has a 1 in 100 chance (1% probability) of being equalled or exceeded in any given year
- Examples of restoration projects across the EU
“Restoring Nature, for the benefit of people, nature and the climate” La Bassée wetlands restoration, France Providing newly created biodiverse wetlands and flood protection for Paris through the restoration of disused gravel pits https: bit ly 36AkeMN Dune ecosystem revival, Netherlands Restoring dune complexes and salt marshes along the North Sea coast to enhance biodiversity and
- ReSET for the Future - Environment - European Commission
For example, WaterWorld was used to map natural flood storage in Spain, identifying areas that benefit downstream populations The results showed that soil health plays a critical role in flood storage, while forest canopies and water bodies also provide natural flood storage
- Soil health - Environment - European Commission
The EU is committed to enhancing the health of soil for the benefit of people, food, nature, and climate
- Too much water - Environment - European Commission
Cities can become flood-proof by planning, cooperating, and working with nature This involves restoring wetlands to soak up rainwater, creating buffer zones along water bodies to block floods, building green roofs and walls to absorb rain, planting urban forests and parks to catch and soak in rainwater, and using permeable pavements to let
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