https://archive.ph/G7hrX
"Like anything else, water is great in moderation—urbanites need it to survive,
but downpours can flood streets and homes. And as you might have noticed,
climate change isn’t good at moderation. A warmer atmosphere holds more
moisture, supercharging storms to dump more water quicker, which can overwhelm
municipal sewer systems built for the climate of long ago. Thus you get the
biblical flooding that’s been drowning cities around the world, from Zhengzhou,
China, to Seoul, South Korea, to Cologne, Germany, to New York City.
In response, urban planners are increasingly thinking of cities less as rain
jackets—designed to whisk water away as fast as possible before it has a chance
to accumulate—and more as sponges. By deploying thirsty green spaces and
digging huge dirt bowls where water can gather and percolate into underlying
aquifers, “sponge cities” are making rain an asset to be exploited instead of
expelled."
Via
Future Crunch issue 189:
https://futurecrunch.com/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
