Ministry of Environment promotes evaluation of local river management concentrated on flood damage

Recently, measures to evaluate whether local governments are well managing and maintaining local rivers where flood damage is concentrated are being promoted.

The Ministry of Environment recently ordered a research service to prepare a local river management and maintenance evaluation plan.

The Ministry of Environment plans to secure and spread excellent cases of local river management by local governments in the future and induce competition among local governments.

Local river maintenance is important to prevent flood damage, and the embankment maintenance rate is only 78% for local rivers, compared to over 95% for national rivers.