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Heavy rainfall poses risks for dams to overtop and overflow, causing uncontrolled release of impounded water downstream. When dams fail or breach, the result could be catastrophic. Surging water downstream can destroy lives and properties on its path. The Conversation article reports that …
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Miami, a coastal metropolis in south Florida with the third-largest US skyline and the country's third-most prosperous city, has a waste problem. The city is also famous for attracting residents from other states fleeing rising crime, higher taxes, and cold weather. But its overflowing garbage …
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Lack of access to clean drinking water, sanitary bathrooms, and treated wastewater is an ongoing emergency for many parts of the United States. According to the Time article "The Water Crisis No One In America Is Fixing," in rural and urban communities throughout the country, water tainted by …
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The anti-government and anti-tax mantra Ronald Regan promoted in the 80s remains in many Americans until today. But this sentiment that drove under-taxation in the country resulted in underfunding some essential services. Poor communities and cities are most affected by its consequences when this …
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There has been renewed focus on cybersecurity as critical infrastructure, as some crucial infrastructure in the US has been subjected to cyber hacks. In 2019 a Kansas water treatment plant was tampered with, and in February 2021, hackers infiltrated a Florida water treatment plant. Unlike …
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The Biden-Harris administration launched an initiative called "Closing America's Wastewater Access Gap Community Initiative" through a partnership between the US Department of Agriculture and the US Environmental Protection Agency. The announcement from the US Department of Agriculture says that …
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The EPA announced on 18 August 2022 that the longstanding sewage problem between the U.S. and Mexico border, mainly the untreated wastewater from Tijuana's sewage system flowing and polluting San Diego's beaches and coastal waters, is getting fixed. Mexico's water treatment plant near the U.S. …
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The 1960s and 1970s ushered in the golden age of infrastructure in the United States, where the country expanded its highways and built its water infrastructure. But infrastructure maintenance in many parts of the country has been lacking, and extreme events due to climate change are damaging …
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The majority of Louisiana's parishes or counties' population continues to shrink. Its 2020 consensus reflects a downward population trend, which some experts think may be influenced by the impacts of the pandemic and extreme events such as Hurricane Laura that hit the state in August 2020 (Adelson, …
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South Carolina's growing population and its experience of a severe drought in 2008-2009 are some of the reasons that the state needs to update its State Water Plans. On 9 March 2018, the American Rivers reported that the state plans to change this by completing its new water plan's second and …
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Aging infrastructure and climate change are two woes facing California's water management teams. To tackle these problems and encourage investors to get behind improving California's water system and future-proofing it, a couple of Standford researchers based in civil and environmental …
In a March 2020 report, sewage had steadily spilled into riverbeds and valleys, which would usually be dry, in San Diego, California, near the Mexican border. This cross-border sewage spill has caused a fair bit of public irritation due to the odors of the water infused with human excrement. …
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