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Kristina Hill 🌈 (@kzhill.bsky.social)

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Short #hydrology 🧵 on pumping and coastal #climateadaptation … Most ppl don’t realize that levees require pumps. And in former wetland soils, pumping = sinking. As if that’s not bad enough, pumping can bring saltwater groundwater upwards by 40 ft for every 1 ft the water table is lowered. 1/n

#adaptation #sealevelrise #climatecrisis #costalflooding #ClimateLiteracy

15h ago