Flood management game launched

An online game has been launched to help drive home the possible effects of widespread flooding across the country.

Floodsim.com offers an insight into how the UK would look in the event of a major flood and offers gamers the chance to lead the national response.

Simulations of the effects on London’s Olympic Park and major city centres without effective flood management are built into the game.

The home insurance industry has backed the launch as it continues to try to raise awareness of the risks associated with flooding. The game charges the player with making key policy decisions - from major infrastructure works to planting trees and providing sandbags - and then reveals what happens when flooding hits the country each year.

Success is represented by how many people and how much of the economy is hit by flooding as a result of those decisions.

Environment Minister Phil Woolas said: "A number of decisions need to be taken when we look at managing the risk of flooding - including our annual spend on flood defences, where and how we will build new houses and the emergency response procedures we have in place for times of flood.”

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