{"id":4066,"date":"2026-07-25T14:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T13:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhwnews.com\/?p=4066"},"modified":"2026-07-25T14:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T13:41:15","slug":"river-thames-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhwnews.com\/?p=4066","title":{"rendered":"River Thames Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an extract from an article on the River Thames Scheme by Unda Consulting Ltd.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>An organisational competence problem at the Environment Agency?<\/strong><br \/>\nTaken together, these examples point to an <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">uncomfortable conclusion<\/span><\/strong>. The Environment Agency demonstrably has the technical capability to understand flood risk and design sophisticated interventions. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>What it appears to struggle with is converting that technical work into timely, cost-controlled, consented delivery at scale.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is not a criticism of individual engineers or flood scientists. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>It is a critique of organisational competence at programme level: the ability to manage long development periods without runaway pre-construction spend, to maintain clear and credible public programmes through successive reviews, and to align ambition with what can realistically be funded and delivered.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The full article can be found <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unda.co.uk\/news\/river-thames-scheme-delays-raise-questions-over-flood-defence-delivery\/\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an extract from an article on the River Thames Scheme by Unda Consulting Ltd. 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