Points out that water is a transnational issue and that we must cooperate on identifying clearly the factors – and their extent - which are regularly put forward as causes of the exceptional floods, including environmental factors (inefficient maintenance of river systems, new agricultural practices, deforestation, etc.) and aspects of urbanisation (expansion of built-up areas, water runoff, increase in impervious surfaces (roads), etc.), with a view to establishing responsibility, assessing the cost and preventing the repeated floods from which the authorities at present seem unable to learn any lessons;
Zij zijn verantwoordelijk, want zij hebben de macht.not-set not-set