The recommendation to the report would be to have a funded program to take a look at water retention and water diversion. They both go hand in hand.
I'll give you an example. In southwestern Ontario in the Norfolk sand plain a few years ago they were having serious problems with drought and they put a program in place where they provided incentives for farmers to provide off-stream storage for water. All of sudden they had irrigation water in the summer. While they were doing that, they also created some spillways, so that if a huge amount of water came in the spring, they reduced the effects of flooding.
By putting that incentive in place, you've got the benefits on both sides. When the floods came, there was a diversion that was thought out and it took the water away from where it had to go. But at the same time, it recognized that with a lot of the weather patterns we're seeing, extreme drought and extreme wet, they were able to store that water for irrigation.