COP26: Flooding lessons from Hull, a city below sea level
Hull has been at COP26 to share its innovative approach to tackling flood threats with the world. …
Something more needed to be done. Over the course of 10 years after the 2007 flood, “different agencies spent hundreds of millions of pounds on pumping, drainage, flood defence,” says Lee Pitcher, from the Living With Water partnership. But Hull remained the second most at-risk place in the country.