Pumps are an integral part of plans to help save South Florida from flooding. Thanks to climate change, stormwater systems here — and around the world — are coming under growing strain. In some cases, they’re starting to fail.
The city of Miami considered reorganizing its resilience department, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities program, with its public works department. Activists lobbied to keep the resilience department as its own department.
Commissioners approved a deal with the Urban Land Institute to have a panel of engineering and planning experts review the city’s adaptation plans for sea-level rise.
