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SUDS addresses all these challenges—many simultaneously, if they are designed well. The Government’s recently introduced national standards, to which I referred earlier, set out good practice design requirements for such multifunctional sustainable drains. As I also mentioned, the mandatory approach was recommended by the Pitt review following the summer 2007 floods, when over 55,000 people were flooded—I visited most of them at that time, so it seemed—7,000 people needed rescue, 13 people died and half a million were without mains power and water.