Monday 3 December 2007
9:00pm

This summer’s floods devastated more than 40,000 homes. Fourteen people died, thousands were evacuated, many were left without electricity and drinking water.

The floods caused more than £3 billion pounds of damage and resulted in the biggest emergency operation ever mounted in peacetime Britain. With experts predicting a future where much of the country is at increasing risk of flooding, Dispatches investigates what the authorities are doing to protect the public from such disasters in the future and questions whether adequate resources are being spent on flood defences.