AAP General News (Australia)
01-10-2011
QLD:Flood terminology misleading: academic
BRISBANE, Jan 10 AAP - Describing a severe weather event as a "one-in-100-year flood"
is misleading and the term should be dropped, a Queensland academic says.
The term doesn't mean a flood will occur once in 100 years, but that there's a one
per cent chance of a flood happening in any given year, said Associate Professor Dann
Mallet, from the Faculty of Science and Technology at the Queensland University of Technology
(QUT).
Prof Mallett said the term is confusing and may mean that people don't take the necessary
precautions against …
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