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This activity looks at how we can mitigate the impacts of flooding and extreme weather events using Storm Bert as an example.  

The link to the Financial Times article accompanying this activity can be found here: https://bit.ly/3ZiV2C8

This article underpins many aspects of the water cycle, extreme weather and drainage basin systems within the A Level Specifications specifically: 

AQA

3.1.1.2c Drainage basins as open systems

3.1.1.2e Changes in the water cycle over time to include natural variation including storm events, seasonal changes and human impact including farming practices, land use change and water abstraction.

3.1.1.6b Case study of a river catchment(s) at a local scale…consider the impact of precipitation upon drainage basin stores and transfers and implications for sustainable water supply and/or flooding.

3.1.5.5 Storm hazards.

3.1.2.2f Sources of water: exogenous, endoreic and ephemeral; the episodic role of water; sheet flooding, channel flash flooding.

Edexcel

2B.9.b. Storm surge events can lead to severe coastal flooding with dramatic short-term impacts (depressions, tropical cyclones).

2B.10.b. Coastal flooding and storm surge events can have serious economic and social consequences for coastal communities in both developing and developed countries.

5.5 Surpluses within the hydrological cycle can lead to flooding, with significant impacts for people.

OCR

3.a. Human factors can disturb and enhance the natural processes and stores in the water and carbon cycles.

3.b.i. How climate change is leading to increasing frequency of extreme weather events such as wild-fire, El-Nino, floods, and drought which can affect food production.

4.b. The impacts of climate change are global and dynamic.

(EDUQAS) & WJEC

2.1.2 Catchment hydrology – the drainage basin as a system.

(2)3.1.3 Temporal variations in river discharge.

(2)3.1.4 Precipitation and excess runoff within the water cycle.

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