When disaster strikes, contractors flood the area to cash in on the rebuilding effort.
Peter Quarmby, EA flood and coastal manager, said the internet and social networks will be used to teach people how to find out if their homes or businesses are in a flood risk area and how they can minimise potential damage to their properties.
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The defences include a flood water storage area, upstream of the city, which can hold up to 1.5 million cubic metres of water.
Those not harmed, but living in the flood-ravaged area, still face plenty of challenges such as no electricity, a disrupted water supply, damaged roads and faulty communication.
At first, workers reported only minor damage underground but later more serious problems developed and cracks caused by the tremor caused methane gas to flood into the area.
"No one can fight the power of the government, but the problem is that there are women and children inside, " he said while inspecting a flood-ravaged area of southwestern Pakistan.
Yorkshire Water claims the station at Kingswood would provide five-times the level of flood protection for the area.
On one estimate, more than 5m visitors are expected to flood in to the area between Christmas 1999 and Easter 2001.
It will also reduce flood risk in the area by increasing the volume of water that can safely flow through the river.
The agency has since reviewed its flood zone in the area, but Mr Higgins said he intended to go ahead with the idea.
Malcolm Dowden, an environmental law specialist, points out another problem: government-sponsored flood defences in one area may shift floods downstream to other areas.
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The ABI report said that with people being asked to pay more towards flood protection in their area and take on more of the risk, the Environment Agency needed to involve communities better in decisions on flood protection.
"We have made some minor modifications to one of the buildings to make it more attractive but at the end of the day what we are looking to provide is an enormous increase in flood protection for that area, " Mr Sears said.
The Environment Agency has issued three flood warnings for the Crossens area, Croston and Pimlico Brook in Clitheroe.
Flood warnings in the Birmingham area would be cleared, he said.
"Longlevens was particularly badly hit in 2007, and as a council we are delighted that this scheme will reduce the flood risk to the Longlevens area, " he added.
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On Monday the toll from the flooding rose again to 20, after the body of a man was found in the Lockyer Valley area and a flood-related death was confirmed in Ipswich.
Heavy rainfall in the middle of the month has already caused flooding in parts of the Bearn region, inland of Biarritz, and the French meteorological agency has issued flood warnings for the whole area in the upcoming days.
The Environment Agency has issued three flood warnings for the Crossens area from Ormskirk to Southport including Banks, Birkdale, Brown Edge, Mere Brow and Scarisbrick, the River Yarrow in Croston relating to properties on Grape Lane, Town Road, and Yarrow Close and Pimlico Brook in Clitheroe.
South Hams District Council said it had provided 1, 400 sandbags to flood-hit communities in its area, using about 27 tonnes of sand.
Planners have also expressed concerns over traffic congestion and road safety as well as the project's impact on flood risk, trees in the area, wildlife, landscape, ground stability and potential contamination.
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The lawsuit refers to the so-called 100-year flood plain, which maps the area that could be affected by the type of flooding that statistically can be expected to happen once in a century.
Twenty-two flood warnings remain in place within the area, including the River Ouse and River Ure.
Police received a report of another incident involving a vehicle being trapped in flood water on Boddington Road in the Byfield area, by Boddington Lake.
He supports legislation that would require anyone living in an area protected by a levee to have flood insurance.
In between the two main fences is 150 feet of "no man's land, " an area that the Border Patrol sweeps with flood lights and trucks, and soon, surveillance cameras.
The spokesman added that a "close eye" would be kept on the situation, especially in the area downstream of Oxford, where the flood risk would be the greatest if there is heavy and persistent rainfall.
While areas downriver continued to brace for the growing flood, a glimmer of recovery hope flickered in one area upriver.
Another area river, the Anclote, was above flood stage on Tuesday, and water is not expected to recede for two days.
Assembly Environment Minister Carwyn Jones visited flood hit communities at Trefriw and Llanrwst January after the area was hit by severe flooding for the second time in under a year.
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