Note the statement I've made: This is a rought draft, it's not close to being ready for submission, I'm looking more for feedback on content, grammar, and formatting here.
The General Assembly,
RECOGNIZING that many centers of population and critical infrastructure lie adjacent to bodies of water,
FURTHER RECOGNIZING that not all nations have taken preventive measures to ensure that said centres of population and critical infrastructure are protected from flooding,
DESIRING this deficiency in law which might affect lives and property be remedied, hereby:
- Mandates member states conduct environmental impact studies of flooding prior to the planning or execution of any efforts at mitigation;
- Requires nations to adopt plans to restore areas that might be benefitted by flooding or may serve as natural defenses against flooding;
- Requires member states to,
- Establish standards to be deemed “flooding” at points along aforementioned bodies of water, relative to the normal level of the body of water, which shall be the standard for when “flooding” is occurring;
- Identify flooding scenarios which occur most often and their impacts to life and property;
- Create action plans to protect life and property in low-lying areas that are susceptible to flooding;
- Establish emergency action plans to be triggered in the event that flooding is occurring at a point or forecast downstream if flooding is occurring at points upstream of critical infrastructure or centers of population;
- Formulate plans to protect critical infrastructure such as hospitals, power stations, and facilities which deal with drinking water or wastewater;
- Create infrastructure suitable to flee areas forecast to flood in the event flooding is forecast or a flood is occurring;
- Requires member states to invest in flood-control infrastructure including, but not limited to:
- Natural floodwater breaks such as wetlands,
- Man-made structures such as levees, river control structures, secondary channels, and bays;
- Urges nations to,
- Cooperate with provincial and local authorities, if they exist, to formulate plans for flood response;
- Invest in training and equipment for emergency response services to deal with life-threatening situations involving flooding;
- Identify least-likely scenarios for flooding and their impacts and craft plans to ameliorate the impacts for those scenarios.
- Clarifies that nations may engage in controlled flooding of a body of water provided that they assume the costs inherent in attempting said controlled flooding.