WWT highlights wetland solutions at biggest ever Flood Prevention Expo
The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) will be showing the flood prevention industry how wetlands can help to manage floods, at the world’s biggest flood prevention conference in London next month.
The first ever Flood Defence and Prevention Expo at ExCeL in London’s Docklands is expected to attract 2,000 industry professionals seeking the latest solutions for flood prevention, management and recovery.
The Flood Defence & Prevention Expo is both a problem solving conference and a solutions exhibition highlighting new, cost-effective ways to prevent and manage floods. It promises to feature the latest research, products and solutions to help minimise – or even better, entirely avoid – the risk of potential flooding.
WWT’s Head of Wetland Conservation Rob Shore will be part of a schedule of live panel debates discussing topics such as environmental solutions for flooding, and future investment for global flooding solutions.
Rob Shore said:
“We’re going to show that you can often manage floods more effectively by working with nature, rather than against it.
“Wetlands can store heavy rainfall and release it slowly downstream, so that homes and businesses aren’t flooded.
“Wetlands also bring other benefits – like filtering pollution out of dirty run-off and using the nutrients to create rich wildlife features that make our world a greener, nicer place to live in.”
Rob will be telling companies about some of WWT’s wetland creation work – from small scale wetland features that soak up local rainfall running off school roofs in North London, to our huge 400 hectare wetland creation project at WWT Steart Marshes that provides a great number of benefits including protecting sea walls from rising tides, creating fishery nurseries and grazing land, great habitat for local wildlife, a nature reserve, and being a key part of a flood management strategy along the Severn Estuary that protects 100,000 properties worth £5bn from coastal flooding.
Flood Defence and Prevention Expo is at ExCeL London on the 4th and 5th December 2014. Find out more and book free tickets online now at www.flooddefenceexpo.co.uk
