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Disaster Planning and Climate Change
Posted by Huffington Post: Steve Fleischli on October 2nd, 2012
Huffington Post: Fall may have arrived, but it hasn't brought an end to the great drought of 2012. My home state of Nebraska has been hit hard, with nearly 98 percent of the state still experiencing extreme or exceptional drought. Friends and family have told me that cities have restricted water use, farmers have plowed their crops under, and ranchers have thinned their herds. Tens of thousands of acres have caught fire across the state, and fire departments have had to ask for emergency increases in property taxes...
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Is Your City Preparing for the Impacts of Climate Change on Its Water Resources?
Posted by Huffington Post: Steve Fleischli on July 26th, 2011
Huffington Post: As conservation planners in Oregon like to say, there's a slow-moving tsunami headed our way.
In some cities, this could come in the form of rising seas that might take decades to flood our shores. In other cities, it could come from rivers overflowing their banks because of more intense storms. For others, it may come not as a torrent of water at all -- but as waves of more frequent and prolonged drought, as rains decrease and rivers dry up. This year we've seen an onslaught of such disasters,...