California's dam system unprepared for severe weather
California's dam system unprepared for severe weather
www.nytimes.com The Trillion-Gallon Question: What if California’s Dams Fail?
One superstorm could send walls of water sweeping through populated areas. There’s not much time to act.
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Like most of this country's infrastructure, California's dams were built without regard for the truly severe weather that climate change makes possible. In the US, electrical grids, coastlines, transportation networks, communication facilities are all vulnerable to extreme weather.
What, if anything, is your community doing to prepare its infrastructure for the ravages that rising temperatures will bring?
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