{"id":298,"date":"2010-10-11T11:53:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T10:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2010-10-11T12:11:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T11:11:12","slug":"government-must-target-funding-for-flood-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/government-must-target-funding-for-flood-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Government must target funding for flood prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environment Minister Roseanna Cunningham recently announced plans for a Flood Forecasting Service, providing \u00a3750,000 of Scottish Government funding. \u00a0Liberal Democrat campaigner for Angus and Mearns, Sanjay Samani, welcomed the announcement, but called on the Government to do more on planning flood prevention as well as forecasting.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of the investment for flood forecasting is very welcome. \u00a0We all remember the devastating effects of flooding throughout Angus, Mearns and Stonehaven last year. \u00a0Local emergency services can now be better prepared in case these tragic events occur again in future.<\/p>\n<p>However, ensuring that flooding is prevented is even more important than forecasting when it will happen. \u00a0The SNP Government made it a requirement that Councils prepare for flooding in the Flood Risk Management Act passed by parliament last year.<\/p>\n<p>The SNP Government must make use of the information from the forecasting service to ensure that funding for flood prevention is provided where it is most needed. \u00a0Funding should not be based on a simplistic count of population, but has to be targeted to where flooding is most likely to occur and cause devastating damage to homes, farmland and businesses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PHOTO: Sanjay visiting a flooding site in Brechin with Montrose Cllr David May and Provost &amp; Brechin Cllr Ruth Leslie Melville:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Sanjay Samani visiting flooding site in Brechin\" src=\"http:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_9193.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sanjay Samani visiting flooding site in Brechin\" width=\"540\" height=\"347\" \/><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plans for a Flood Forecasting Service are welcome, but information from it should be used to target flood prevention funding to where it is most needed.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[207,204,211,113,197,116,114],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VHxS-4O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanjaysamani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}