> Mr Thomas would rather the money had been spent right across London on projects that stopped rain flowing directly into drains where it mixes with raw sewage.

> Mr Thomas would rather the money had been spent right across London on projects that stopped rain flowing directly into drains where it mixes with raw sewage. > "You could use nature to be dealing with this. You could have lots of areas that would soak up the rain rather than rush it off the streets and rush it off the roofs straight into the sewers." Berkeley's started building bioswales* in several places to better manage stormwater. It makes a lot of sense and is also a big aesthetic improvement - instead of a concrete gully, you've got a nice green patch and some happy plants. Water management is definitely something we're going to have to get better at. Letting the free water that falls from the sky dump straight into the sewer system is very much a mid-20th-century everything's-infinite-why-worry type approach. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioswale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioswale