But Mr Mustow admitted that much more needed to be done to ensure that farmers did not increase flood risk with land drainage schemes and that developers and builders ensured that new developments allowed water to drain into the soil rather than flushing into the sewers.
The WarpDrive card is designed to provide system integrators and system builders with a robust and stable solution with assured interoperability and a low-risk path to market.
The report said these should be delivered by lenders and house builders working together in the private sector, but the government could step in and share some of the risk if it could not happen on a purely commercial basis.