now, the missouri floods
The water from Iowa is making its way downstream, causing floods in Missouri. Some of this is bad luck, some bad planning.
Bob Criss, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, was interviewed on Here & Now, and spoke of how paving over flood plains — constricting the area the river has to swell under normal cycles – and then building higher levees has contributed to the disaster. One apt phrase stuck out: “Privatizing the profit, but socializing the risk.”