The Advocate
If there are two cities in the world, not just the Gulf Coast, where the challenges of water management and climate change should be top priorities, it is New Orleans and Houston.
The devastation of both cities, from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Harvey in 2017, endure in public memory. Katrina revealed the failure of the federally built levee system, and the impact of that hurricane on the Mississippi coast caused many deaths and underscored the vulnerability of coastal communities, as well as the incompetence of U.S. government reactions to events. Harvey flooded one of America’s largest cities and competed with Katrina in property damages, though blessedly not in loss of life.
The cities are now linked in a new national effort to improve cities’ response to catastrophic shocks like hurricanes and flooding.
In a new private-sector response to events in Houston, the city and national foundations are seeking to promote a resilience strategy — a set of initiatives to help the Texas city prepare for the next time.
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