He’s Got a Plan for Cities That Flood: Stop Fighting the Water
www.nytimes.com
A landscape architect in China has a surprising strategy to help manage surges of water from storms supercharged by climate change.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/8079352

Instead of putting in more drainage pipes, building flood walls and channeling rivers between concrete embankments, which is the usual approach to managing water, Mr. Yu wants to dissipate the destructive force of floodwaters by slowing them and giving them room to spread out.

Mr. Yu calls the concept “sponge city” and says it’s like “doing tai chi with water,” a reference to the Chinese martial art in which an opponent’s energy and moves are redirected, not resisted.

  • mondoman712OPEnglish
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    8 months ago

    The article mentions the program was started in China in 2015, and I’m sure it’s been done elsewhere earlier. But I don’t think it’s a problem to keep talking about, since a lot of people won’t have heard about it before.