The Local Authorities Water Programme (Lawpro) leads stormwater management using nature-based solutions in Ireland with a national strategy for nature-based management of urban rainwater and urban surface water discharges. The idea is that nature-based solutions replicate natural drainage processes, providing a more sustainable solution than hard engineering works. “We are overly reliant on conventional piped systems,” Tom Brennan and Eamonn O’Connell of Lawpro told attendees at a nature-based solutions conference. It has been heralded as the largest urban nature-based solution retrofit project in Ireland and the UK. The costs of preventive measures using nature-based solutions are also often a fraction of that of hard engineering measures such as concrete flood barriers.

Source: The Irish Times February 06, 2026 02:00 UTC