UK’s most populated cities could see spike in risk of major flooding events

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Flood Re says the findings ’support all the existing research on the impact of flooding in the UK’

Government-backed flood insurer Flood Re has urged the government to continue investing in key flood defences as a report claimed some of the UK’s most populated cities could see a 25% increase in their risk of major flooding events.

The University of Bristol and global water risk modelling company Fathom published the dataset that assessed flood hazards last week (7 March 2023).

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