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- Flooding in the United Arab Emirates’ city of Dubai last week illustrates a simple climate change problem the modern world has not fixed: lack of drainage.
- New cities built in previously uninhabitable areas block natural water absorption systems, and older cities are not immune to the problem either as more frequent, massive rainfalls occur.
- “When we pave, it’s not there anymore,” said one sustainability expert about a big urban development and climate engineering challenge for the future.
Traffic diverts away from a flooded street in Sharjah on April 20, 2024, after the heaviest rainfall…
