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Urban flash flood risks require £12bn drainage investment blitz

National Infrastructure Commission warns over 600,000 homes and businesses are at risk without improved action to tackle runoff

Flooded streets, homes, and stations could become a common feature of city life without urgent action to tackle the growing risk of surface water flooding triggered by increasingly intense rainfall...

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