A flood watershed

The paper states that remote control and monitoring is the future for flood prevention in low-lying areas. Around five million people live in flood risk areas in England and Wales, according to the Environment Agency. Some parts of the UK are even below sea level, leaving them constantly at risk from permanent flooding and water logging. However, the flood risk can be reduced by drainage districts, which have been set up to prevent flooding by providing flood protection and water-level management schemes, which involves improving and maintaining rivers, drainage channels and pumping stations to evacuate water.