{"id":185,"date":"2005-10-12T12:24:35","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T11:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/12\/flood-risk-complacency\/"},"modified":"2009-01-25T15:12:05","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T15:12:05","slug":"flood-risk-complacency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/12\/flood-risk-complacency\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood Risk Complacency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environment-agency.gov.uk\/\">Environment Agency<\/a> has commissioned a survey and come out with the statement that up to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/4333306.stm\">41% of people in the UK are unaware of the risk of flooding to their homes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So who holds this information about who&#8217;s at risk of flooding? Guess what, it&#8217;s the Environment Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The blindingly obvious question is: Why doesn&#8217;t the Environment Agency just tell these people they are at risk &#8211; problem solved without wasting time and tax payers&#8217; money on pointless surveys?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Environment Agency has commissioned a survey and come out with the statement that up to 41% of people in the UK are unaware of the risk of flooding to their homes. So who holds this information about who&#8217;s at risk of flooding? Guess what, it&#8217;s the Environment Agency. The blindingly obvious question is: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[136,41,125,137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}