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As El Niño rains arrive, Los Angeles shunts precious water to sea

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageHere come the rains to Hollywood and Southern California. skinnylawyer/flickr, CC BY-SA

If ever a city was built to be resilient to heavy rains, it is Los Angeles. And yet, El Niño is about to test just how resilient the city is in the short term to flooding, and even more importantly, how resilient it can be to water shortages over the long...

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