Erica Gies - South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/rss/513025/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png Erica Gies - South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com What does water want? This radical question runs counter to mainstream culture’s well-established urge to control water with dams and levees. But as increasingly severe and frequent floods and droughts strike people around the world, “water detectives” are realising that it’s not just climate change amping up these disasters, but also our development choices: urban sprawl, industrial agriculture, and even the engineering we use to try to control water. As China’s cities face more and more... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3184471/what-are-chinas-sponge-cities-urban-flooding?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3184471/what-are-chinas-sponge-cities-urban-flooding?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 09 Jul 2022 03:15:10 +0000 What are China’s ‘sponge cities’? The urban flooding solution that’s being trialed across the country to counter an increasingly deadly problem