Flood reports
Recent reports on flooding including the Flooding in Wales and Flooding in England - a national assessment of flood risk reports and Flood and coastal risk management in England long-term investment strategy.
Exercise Watermark was the most successful flood exercise held in the UK. The final reports identify where lessons can be learnt and makes recommendations to the UK and Welsh Governments to help improve our preparedness for widespread flooding.
The latest climate change projections indicate that flooding and coastal erosion are likely to increase in the future. This assessment considers the possible costs of building and maintaining river and coastal defences over the next 25 years.
Our new national assessment of flood risk for Wales sets out the current level of risk from rivers and the sea and what the Environment Agency is doing to manage it.
Our national assessment of flood risk for England, published in 2009, sets out the current level of risk from rivers and the sea and what the Environment Agency is doing to manage it.
The latest climate change predictions indicate that flooding and coastal erosion are likely to increase in the future. The long-term investment strategy sets out the scale of the investment needed to meet this challenge over the next 25 years.
Find out how Government and the Environment Agency have responded to the flooding.
Flooding reports and lessons learned from the floods in Wales in 1998 and 2000