How can Greater Manchester become more flood resilient?
‘What’s going on? Where are the alerts?’
Dear readers — 2025 began differently to other new years: not just with fireworks or beers, but with flooding across Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire of such magnitude that an aqueduct on Bridgewater Canal collapsed. This city-region is in a position of particular vulnerability: sitting, as we do, in a natural topographical bowl. As such, we’ve spent the last week speaking to experts to try and get a sense of how prepared Greater Manchester currently is to weather floods, as well as finding out what could be done in future to flood-proof the city-region more.
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