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TheGuardian: "The floods in the north of England are a tragedy. It is indeed time for a Delta plan as radical as the Dutch response to the 1953 North Sea storm surge. … But a growing number of hydrologists and ecologists now argue that this doesn’t necessarily mean big engineering to hurry flood waters away downstream. Rather we should allow nature a freer hand to slow flood waters upstream of urban areas. In the north of England this might mean devoting less of our upland landscape to grouse shooting and sheep farming, and more to replanted native woodlands and reintroduced keystone species, such as beavers."