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What Cities Should Learn From California's Flooding
Episode 829
Winter storms have flooded parts of California, broken levees and forced thousands to evacuate. Climate change is altering the historic weather patterns that infrastructure like reservoirs and waterways were built to accommodate. Urban planners and engineers are rethinking underlying assumptions baked into buildings and water systems in order to adapt to the changing climate. Today, NPR climate correspondent Lauren Sommer walks us through three innovations happening around the country to help cities adapt to shifting and intensifying weather patterns.
Heard of other cool engineering innovations? We'd love to hear about it! Email us at shortwave@npr.org.
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago