Welcome!!

Our vision is a world where the Environment Agency, and wider UK hydrology community, are better equipped to create a society with improved hydrological information and understanding to manage flood hazard in a changing world.

Flood hydrology underpins all flood risk management decisions. We need to improve the way we analyse flood hydrology to effectively manage flood risk considering our changing climate. We are delivering a significant and exciting 6-year Flood Hydrology Improvements Programme for the UK to start to implement actions from the Flood Hydrology Roadmap.

We are delivering projects improving hydrometric data and modelling techniques, our ways of working and our UK-wide capability in flood hydrology. We are passionate about opening hydrology to a wider audience and encouraging new voices in the discipline. In addition, some of our projects are being developed and delivered in collaboration with the Devolved Nations.

Flood Hydrology Improvement Programme themes

The Flood Hydrology Improvements Programme will collaborate with others to deliver twenty projects around three themes;

By the end of the programme the Environment Agency, and wider hydrological community, will be better equipped to help create a society with improved hydrological information and understanding to manage flood hazard in a changing world.

We are only sharing the live and completed projects on our webpages at the moment; we will keep updating the pages but if you want to see what other projects FHIP will undertake in the future there is a full list on the right hand navigation panel of this page!

Our Team

Our team is nationally dispersed and includes project managers and senior hydrologists. Recruited from various backgrounds (academia, consultancy and within the Environment Agency), our key values include integrity, collaboration, and advocacy.

We are part of the Environment Agency’s Evidence and Risk (E&R) department, providing expert analysis and advice to manage flood risk and improve resilience. E&R specialise in fluvial and coastal flood modelling and forecasting, hydrological assessments, mapping and analytics, data improvements, and skills development.

Get Involved

There are several ways you can get involved with the programme:

• Tell us if you are working on projects which share the same objectives as ours or whether you are keen to use our outputs
• Offer time or expertise to help deliver our projects, for example, can you interpret old hydrometric records?
• Invite us to talk to your team, organisation or at your conference to spread the word about our programme and the UK Hydrology Roadmap