Describe the Environment Agency, Wales strategy 'Flood Awareness, Wales' - Scroll down to the 'What are we doing?' section.

The EA is increasingly trying to work with nature, soft defences, not against it by constructing hard defenses e.g. flood barriers.

Describe and give examples of 'soft defences'

Which town on the Severn most needs new defences?

After a period of rain log onto the EA site below and follow the rises in the height of the river at different locations.

Combine this activity with that on p22 of the Hodder textbook GCSE geography for WJEC A Core