Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 on Nostr: Hydro #dams are struggling to handle the world’s intensifying #weather ...
Hydro #dams are struggling to handle the world’s intensifying #weather
#ClimateChange is robbing some dams of #water while oversupplying others.
Like most of the world’s 58,700 large dams, those in California were built for yesterday’s more stable #climate patterns. But climate change taxes the world’s water systems—affecting rainfall, snowmelt, and evaporation—it’s getting tough to predict how much water gets to a dam, and when—risking flooding downstream
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/hydro-dams-are-struggling-to-handle-the-worlds-intensifying-weather/ #climatecrisis
#ClimateChange is robbing some dams of #water while oversupplying others.
Like most of the world’s 58,700 large dams, those in California were built for yesterday’s more stable #climate patterns. But climate change taxes the world’s water systems—affecting rainfall, snowmelt, and evaporation—it’s getting tough to predict how much water gets to a dam, and when—risking flooding downstream
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/hydro-dams-are-struggling-to-handle-the-worlds-intensifying-weather/ #climatecrisis