other countries have adopted it. for example, the 340 local governments in the province of Alberta, Canada, have been delegated such a statutory duty though the province's Public Safety Service Act of 1980. the U.K. has delegated the responsibility for flood emergency response planning and management to the National Rivers Board and its River Authorities. However, some of the more recent U.K. writers are concerned that this model is sill too costly, inefficient,
over-bureaucratized and unresponsive.