• Climate Change

Water Infrastructure Crumbling Under Climate Change Pressures

• Green New Deal
• Hurricane Maria
• Lake Okeechobee
• levees
• Midwestern floods
• Puerto Rico
• water infrastructure

The U.S. flood control system of levees and dams are worn out and not up to the threat that climate change is posing them.  On Sunday, The New York Times reported that across the flooded Midwest, the vaunted federal levee system that was supposed to protect towns and farmland from devastating floods “is now so full of holes that many [there] ruefully describe it as ‘Swiss cheese,’” leaving many areas without flood protection at all.