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Sep 2, 2015
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California's fresh water system is in danger
It was just the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and here in California it's easy to think we could never see such devastation here... but it's possible.
File: Water is held back from a lower-elevation farm (R) by a section of Highway 4 that serves as a levee road in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, west of Stockton.
File: Water is held back from a lower-elevation farm (R) by a section of Highway 4 that serves as a levee road in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, west of Stockton.
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It was just the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and here in California it's easy to think we could never see such devastation here... but it's possible.

The nation just marked the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and here on the West Coast it's easy to think we could never see such devastation here, but there is something the Golden State shares in common with New Orleans... reliance on a system of levees. 

"California's Katrina is Coming," that's the headline of a piece at Wired.com.

wrote it, and he joins Alex Cohen for a conversation about the piece. 

To hear the entire conversation click on the audio embedded at the top of the post.