These days one of the repeatedly emerging environmental problems is that high intensity precipitation floods roads, gardens and apartments, causing significant damages. We can fight this phenomenon with coordinated and unified landscaping and forest management, as well as by using the tools of protection against inland water and applying the methods of modern precipitation management in settlements. Such measures may include including the ration of using water permeable surfaces and covering materials in the settlements, using delayed drainage of water by building decentralized precipitation reservoirs, using ditch systems transporting inland water and settlement precipitation, reconstructing and cleaning culverts, retaining and establishing water based habitats. These solutions require novel approaches, as developing. Planning and implementing these capacities necessitate new and unusual methods. Additionally, precipitation currently is an unused natural resource which we simply let through our infrastructure – that generates substantial costs – instead of applying different ways of putting them to use.

BDL prepared the precipitation drainage plans of Sopron and Budakeszi, and in these cities there are tangible evidences that upon receiving extreme level of rainfall there is less environmental, social and economic damage. Further to business, in the course of professional activities – including participation in water related professional works or actively contributing to the process of Action 2020 Hungary – we try to raise awareness about utilizing water and about environmentally conscious water management, so that consequently everybody views rainfall as a possibility, as opposed to a mere problem.