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Fixing cities' water crises could send our climate targets down the gurgler

  • Written by Peter Fisher, Adjunct Professor, Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
Water treatment plants can't afford not to think about electricity too.CSIRO/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Two cities on opposing continents, Santiago and Cape Town, have been brought to their knees by events at opposing ends of the climate spectrum: flood and drought.

The taps ran dry for Santiago’s 5 million inhabitants in early 2017, due to...

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