How to improve British procurement
A family of beavers has been relocated to an urban park in West London to help mitigate flooding issues. The beavers have created a pond and diverted water flow, which has reduced the risk of flooding in the area. This natural solution has allowed the city to abandon costly infrastructure plans for a reservoir and levee.
- ▪Beavers were resettled in a 20-acre urban park near Greenford Tube station.
- ▪The beavers built a dam that created a pond, preventing water from flooding the area.
- ▪Their efforts have eliminated the need for expensive flood mitigation infrastructure.
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How to improve British procurement by Tyler Cowen May 30, 2026 at 3:33 am in Current Affairs Until two years ago, West London’s Greenford Tube station used to flood whenever it rained heavily. The train tracks are aboveground, but the ticket office would often get inundated. Sandbags still line the corridor. But in October 2023, a new family moved in nearby, determined to halt the water. The family members built their house from scratch with local wood and kept odd hours, sleeping all day and working only at dawn and dusk. They even put their young children to work. The new neighbors were beavers. In West London, conservationists got a government license to resettle a family of five beavers in a 20-acre urban park near the Greenford Tube station.
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