Latest news and stories about flood prevention in Portugal for expats and residents.
Safety cannot be treated as a secondary variable, especially when the protection of extensive urban and agricultural areas depends on it. Opinion by P. Proença.
Joaquim Poças Martins, former Secretary of State for the Environment, analyses the response to Storm Kristin and what has been done to prevent flooding.
The construction of the Girabolhos dam, in the municipality of Seia, and the maintenance of the Mondego's hydraulic works downstream of Coimbra are two essential conditions to prevent flooding in that river basin, farmers and association leaders said.
The Pró-Rios Programme will allocate €187 million to works on watercourses and plans to intervene on 1,000 kilometres of rivers and streams in more than 80 interventions.
At the end of October, the Government presented the new ENAAC 2030, which aims to strengthen the capacity to adapt to extreme phenomena and invest in flood prevention, among other measures.
