Xin’an River Hydropower Station, in the province of Zhejiang, China, discharges floodwaters of Qiandao Lake in July 2020, a period of record rainfall in the region. Credit: MasaneMiyaPA/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Finding “Glocal” Solutions to Flooding Problems
By Alka Tripathy-Lang
February 3, 2021
Type “flooding today” into your search engine. You will likely find at least one place battling rising waters somewhere in the world—Mozambique today, Yorkshire yesterday, Hawaii tomorrow. Floods occur when water encroaches on dry land, which can happen during hurricane-induced storm surges or when heavy precipitation (or snowmelt) has nowhere to go. These different flood sources have an important commonality—they all start with weather.
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