The right channels
Flooding in Germany, flooding in France. Heavy rainfalls have flooded entire regions and many cities in the two European countries. The rainfall rates were so heavy in many places that the sewers were unable to drain off the surface water quickly enough.
Climate researchers have been warning for some time that such strong rain events will increase in western and central Europe. Accordingly, the sewer systems would with increasing frequency be required to handle large amounts of surface water within very short periods of time. It is therefore all the more surprising that sufficient investments...
