Flood: does your house have the necessary protection against heavy rain?

When Fatma Özkan organizes one of her seminars on water protection, she always surprises the participants with the question of how many ways water can enter the house. “Most of them fail,” says the head of the Climate Impacts and Property Drainage project at the NRW consumer advice center. Most would say a broken roof and open windows. But there are eight ways water can get into the house.

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