Brett Sanders, UCI professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Jeffrey Mount, senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California’s Water Policy Center, write: “As recent work at UC Irvine has shown, flood preparedness efforts tend to focus narrowly on meeting the bare-minimum federal standards — standards few floodplain managers consider adequate. This approach vastly underestimates the magnitude of flood risks. … How do we turn things around? Putting flood management on par with drought management will require addressing several big issues.”  [Subscription required, you can request an electronic copy of the article by sending an email to communications@uci.edu.] Read More