Total U.S. flood damage costs approached $200 billion from 1988 through 2017, according to a 2021 study in the National Academy of Sciences journal. Approximately $73 billion of those damages were due to excess precipitation over the 29-year period, the study said.
Various technologies and infrastructure strategies have been implemented to better manage stormwater in cities, but much of that infrastructure is aging. Pluvial flooding, or flooding from rainfall, is an increasing issue in urban...
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