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As climate change amplifies urban flooding, here’s how communities can become ‘sponge cities’

  • Written by Franco Montalto, Professor of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering and Director, Sustainable Water Resource Engineering Laboratory, Drexel University
As climate change amplifies urban flooding, here’s how communities can become ‘sponge cities’Water runs into a storm drain in a Los Angeles alley on Aug. 19, 2023, during Tropical Storm Hilary.Citizen of the Planet/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

“When it rains, it pours” once was a metaphor for bad things happening in clusters. Now it’s becoming a statement of fact about rainfall in a changing climate.

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