Professor Dr Zulkifli Yusop FASc is a professor of environmental hydrology at UTM. He specialises in integrated river basin management and sustainable water management. “Impact of Future Floods: The Cost of Not Doing Anything” emphasises the urgency of allocating sufficient resources to climate change adaptation, particularly flood mitigation, now rather than later. Climate change is increasing rainfall intensity, sea-level rise, and the frequency of extreme weather events, exerting more pressure on already fragile urban and rural catchments. Future floods will be catastrophic, especially given the rapid development that has diminished the ecosystem’s ability to regulate hydrological processes.
The costliest floods are the ones we choose to ignore. (Shutterstock)
