Lagoons Bursting Out: At The Intersection Of Climate Change And Inadquate Design
Image credit: NOAA Atlas 14, Vol 2 (2004) (pdf file) Wastewater or sludge storage lagoons are designed, in part, based on statistical probability of annual precipitation and evaporation amounts. The data behind these estimates generally don’t take into account contemporary or projected weather extremes associated with man-induced climate change. There is powerful anecdotal evidence of the rapidly changing risk such storage lagoons can pose, as the poor villagers of Hungary could easily tell us about, if we were in direct communication. Accu… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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