Failure to update maps used to assess major flood risk was central to a parliamentary inquiry in which the water authority chief was forced to justify her role after last year’s floods.
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Melbourne Water’s new alert system was supposed to give early warning of impending danger but did not give Melburnians much chance to escape a disastrous flood.