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What Cities Should Learn From California's Flooding

Short Wave

CHAPTER

The Future Looks Like a Bomb's Goofed Off

NOAA won't have new climate data until 2026 and that's almost $12 billion for these water systems will be distributed by then. What we need to do is make sure that we're mainstreaming it into all of our infrastructure decisions from here on out, Lauren says. And there's one more way that's happening: The levees were right up next to the river, like a lot of the rest of the River Feather in Northern California but they've been moved back so as not to cause flooding.

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