When flooding occurs in cities, the potential damages to life and property are huge. Hence, all cities try to protect citizens and infrastructure against flooding by investing in drainage systems and in protection against floods from the rivers flowing through the cities as well as protection against storm surges from the sea in case of coastal cities.

Protecting against flooding is not always simply a matter of increased capacity of the drainage system or increased levels of the levees. The causes of flooding interact, and protecting one area may create problems next door - or sometimes even in more distant areas.

This is where strong modelling tools are indispensible. Tools that can model all aspects of the flooding problem from local floods created by intense rainfall through the interactions between water in the drainage system and water in streets and parks to water in the river and in the sea. 

Only the MIKE products provide a truly integrated set of tools that allow you to model all the complex interactions which cause floods in cities and allow you to optimize the design of drainage system and flood protection schemes that will protect the lives of citizens and their properties against the devastations of floods.