Despite growing water efficiencies, agricultural users still remove water from the system for longer periods of time than municipal or residential users, resulting in a greater impact on the ...

Tianjin Key Laboratory of Refrigeration Technology, Tianjin University of Commerce, Tianjin 300134, China Laboratory of Ocean Energy Utilization and Energy Conservation of Ministry of Education, ...

The response from local officials was consistent: municipal water systems just aren’t designed to fight such intense and prolonged wildfires. But as climate change makes what were once-in-a ...

These problems have exposed what experts say are vulnerabilities in city water supply systems not built for wildfires on this scale. The water system that supplies neighborhoods simply doesn’t ...