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Sustainable Drainage Systems
Stormwater Drainage
The problems associated with the failings of conventional stormwater drainage systems have become painfully evident with the increasingly regular occurrence of major flood events. This has been further exacerbated by on-going development and climate change which is estimated to increase the volume of annual rainfall by 20% to 40% within the next 50 years.
As a consequence, the recent European Water Framework Directive now requires that we must manage our water resources in a more sustainable way and provide an enhanced level of protection to water quality.
This requirement has necessitated a fundamental change in the overall approach to drainage design with the primary aim of replicating natural processes.
This can be achieved by the use of sustainable drainage systems (SUDS) incorporating source control techniques which endeavor to mimic the natural movement of stormwater from a development, reducing flood risk, enhancing water quality and providing an improved environment.
In every corner of the globe-on land and in water, in melting ice and disappearing snow, during heat waves and droughts, in the eyes of hurricanes and in the tears of refugees-the world is witnessing mounting and undeniable evidence that nature’s cycles are profoundly changing. I have found that, beyond death and taxes, there is at least one indisputable fact: Not only does human-caused global warming exist, but it is also growing more dangerous, and at a pace that has now made it a planetary emergency.
AL GORE – an inconvenient truth 2006.