NOTE: BCBC, which is mentioned several times throughout this story, stands for Bridgend County Borough Council, the local authority responsible for the Bridgend area in South Wales.

Alex Bland is a musician and geologist living in Bridgend, South Wales. Until recently, the small culvert running through the area had never caused problems, but increasingly intense rainfall is putting more water through a system that was never designed to cope with it. His home has now flooded twice in the past two years, alongside 12 other homes on his street and around 40 further upstream. Alex and independent councillor Steve Bletsoe told us how the community has come together to respond, from monitoring water levels to putting out sandbags for neighbours, and why maintaining waterways and getting new developments right will become increasingly important as extreme weather changes.