Degrees of Change: Sponge Cities and Pocket Prairies. April 26, 2019, Part 1

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Climate change is happening—now we need to deal with it. Degrees of Change, a new series of hour-long radio specials from Science Friday, explores the problem of climate change and how we as a planet are adapting to it. In this first chapter, SciFri looks at how climate change affects water systems. This year, there were record downpours in the American Midwest that washed out levees and caused catastrophic flooding. Meanwhile, California is recovering from a seven year-long drought that led to water shortages across the state. Cities are starting to rethink their water futures and how they can make their communities more resilient. Here are two examples of how cities around the world are…