{"id":129963,"date":"2022-09-25T21:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/flood-gardens-to-combat-drought-and-biodiversity-loss-says-natural-england\/"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:11:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T14:11:49","slug":"flood-gardens-to-combat-drought-and-biodiversity-loss-says-natural-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/flood-gardens-to-combat-drought-and-biodiversity-loss-says-natural-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood gardens to combat drought and biodiversity loss, says Natural England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nExperts say ditching concrete and creating mini wetlands could help water systems cope better with effects of extreme weatherThis year has seen one of the driest summers on record, with most of the country still officially in drought. Millions of people in England are under hosepipe bans because of water shortages, and reservoir and river levels remain low.The solution to this? People should flood their gardens and create bogs in order to stop the effects of drought and reverse biodiversity loss, according to the head of Natural England. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/sep\/25\/flood-gardens-to-combat-drought-and-biodiversity-loss-says-natural-england\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flood gardens to combat drought and biodiversity loss, says Natural England<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Experts say ditching concrete and creating mini wetlands could help water systems cope better with&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-xOb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":108602,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/loss-of-biodiversity-from-our-gardens-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":129963,"position":0},"title":"Loss of biodiversity from our gardens | Letters","date":"July 1, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Cherry Weston\u2019s garden still attracts wildlife, while Nigel Mellor, Ian Duncan and Steve Brazier are missing worms, snails and birds. 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