[HN Gopher] The Banality of Floods (and Droughts)
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       The Banality of Floods (and Droughts)
        
       Author : luu
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2023-04-24 03:49 UTC (19 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (californiawaterblog.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (californiawaterblog.com)
        
       | ocrow wrote:
       | I don't expect that newspapers will suddenly decide to start
       | doing in depth investigations into systemic failures of
       | hydrologic systems. Nonetheless it's hard to develop nuanced
       | perspectives on what needs changing without knowing what the
       | current system does well and what it does poorly and why it is
       | the way that it is.
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       | If we're going to have sensible public policy we need to educate
       | ourselves better so that we're not always just reacting to the
       | immediate crisis, but actually developing policies that are
       | workable.
        
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