Tag: flooding
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Q&A: How does flooding impact water quality monitoring?
Texans are no strangers to severe weather events. Each year brings its challenges of potential droughts, fires, hurricanes, flash floods and more. A heavy rain season brings additional challenges to the water team at the Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) and their monthly routine water quality sampling visits to water bodies around Texas. We talked…
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Soaking up rising floodwaters in growing cities
Article originally written by Chantal Cough-Schulze Texas cities are expanding fast. Between 2010 and 2019, six of the 15 fastest-growing cities in the United States were in Texas. Bigger cities mean less land to soak up rainwater, leading to increased flood risk. Add climate change to the equation, and you have a bigger flooding problem…
