Home insurance buyers lack access to public flood data

(University of Waterloo) Canadian homeowners do not have the information they need to know if they should buy flood insurance leaving them exposed to significant financial risk. A recent study from the University of Waterloo found flood mapping information in Canada was inadequate, incomplete, hard to locate and varied widely from province-to-province.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news