On 22 October 2014, the City of Ljubljana was hit by flooding. Water has flooded some 900 buildings.

In the first two days 580 professional and volunteer firefighters, members of the City of Ljubljana Civil Protection Headquarters and employees of the City Administration, City Warden Service, day-care centres, VO-KA and KPL public enterprises participated in rescue operations. Besides water extraction and removal of the effects of the floods they have also helped in the evacuation of 100 children from flooded day-care centres, 8 incapacitated persons, and a large number of people from flooded garages, buildings and flooded areas. They also provided temporary accommodation for two persons.

Since the catastrophic floods which have affected Ljubljana in September 2010 until today, the City of Ljubljana has implemented a number of measures to increase flood protection in the area of Ljubljana, for which it allocated almost € 5 million. Nevertheless, certain areas remain at risk because measures undertaken by the City are not sufficient to provide a comprehensive flood protection plan.

Although the National Spatial Plan has been adopted, specific interventions ensuring the safety of the southwestern part of Ljubljana that was most affected by floods, unfortunately, have not been implemented yet, in spite of the fact that the City of Ljubljana had always insisted on their realisation and has done everything it could. Now the state and other municipalities must act.

Following the floods of 2010, the City funded the implementation of further cleaning of the Mali Graben channel in accordance with the study prepared by the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana, regardless of the fact that the state is responsible for its maintenance. The cleaning operations were carried out in 2012, 2013 and 2014. The said intervention, which has proven to be decisive during heavy rainfall in early November 2012, and which prevented the flooding of Mali Graben channel this time did not suffice for the upper Mali Graben region. However, it did protect the Ljubljana's Sibirija district.