US Dams Face New Challenges with Today’s Climate-Charged Rain and Floods

Climate change worsens, and infrastructure throughout the United States encounters situations that have never been seen before. Most of the nation's dams, built many years ago under considerably different meteorological circumstances, now face torrential rains and serious flooding well beyond their designed capacity. This recent shift in weather dynamics stretches the limits of structural integrity to levels that risk communities and environments dependent on such infrastructures.

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