We’ve built our cities to be vulnerable to—and exacerbate—major weather events such as the one we saw in Auckland on Friday. While almost no city in the world could fully escape the effects of four months’ worth of rain in 24 hours, there are many things that could have been done to avoid some of the worst impacts.
Click here for original story, Auckland floods: Even stormwater reform won’t be enough. We need a ‘sponge city’ to avoid future disasters
Source: Phys.org