Waterways today are engineered systems that are more orderly than natural rivers, but they are increasingly dumb.
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Waterways are misunderstood, but probably not for the reason you’re thinking.
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For policymakers in Arizona, managing limited water supplies seems like it should be an obsession. So…why isn’t it?
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Arizona’s water agency has approved 80,000 new housing lots, even though developers are finding it increasingly difficult to find enough water for it.
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Strong Towns member and former Jackson, MS, resident Amanda Lanata comes to the Strong Towns Podcast to discuss the role that racism played in the city’s recent water crisis.
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What are the origins of our current water systems, and how should we think about them, going forward?
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For seven weeks Jackson’s residents had to bear the brunt of a failing water system, and unfortunately it was bound to happen.
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Residents of Maricopa County in Arizona find themselves engaged in a war over water, as the county builds itself out beyond its means.
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What can we do at the most immediate, local level when water reservoirs run low?
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Collier County is poised to spend over $200 million extending utilities to a whole new, previously rural, portion of the county. Let's #DoTheMath on this plan.
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Over the last 40 years, the federal government’s share of spending on water infrastructure dropped from 63% to 9%. That means it’s up to local communities to figure out how to pay to repair or replace all that aging infrastructure.
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When an attempt to solve a problem ends up making the problem worse, that’s The Cobra Effect. It’s also a pretty good description of the decisions that are slowly bankrupting many of our towns and cities.
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For decades, we’ve built like there was no tomorrow, prioritizing short-term growth over longterm stability, prosperity, and safety. Exhibit A: 20,000 high-risk dams that are emergencies waiting to happen.
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Tampa has an epidemic of leaking and bursting pipes. But don’t worry, the city’s taking action! …by proposing an eightfold increase in the amount it spends on maintenance for the next 20 years, half funded by new debt. How did we get to this point?
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Sending Great Lakes water to the American West is a desperate, expensive, band-aid solution to a much bigger problem.
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Will multimodal infrastructure save our region money on maintenance, leaving more funding to address flooding and drainage issues?
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It is very seductive to look at Houston's flooding as a simple engineering and planning problem.
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For extreme events, we can't measure risk, but we can measure fragility. Cities that want to protect themselves from extreme events need to become less fragile. They need to adopt a Strong Towns approach.
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Anyone suggesting that more wetlands or more pervious surfaces would have done anything to mitigate what has happened in Houston is lacking a proper sense of scale.
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These 5 harmful myths about Houston's land use planning need to be put to rest.
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