Ancient and buried riverbeds can move and absorb excess stormwater, storing it for future droughts.
Capturing the Flood in California’s Ancient Underground Waterways
January 4, 2022 •
Erica Gies
Erica Gies, a journalist and National Geographic Explorer, writes about water, climate change, plants, and critters for Scientific American, the New York Times, Nature, the Atlantic, and others. Her book Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge tells the story of water and its relationships and discusses how we can deploy “slow water” innovations to improve our own relationship with water, reducing impacts from today’s more intense floods and droughts. Water Always Wins is now available for preorder at SlowWater.world.