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Civil engineers are working hard to battle the outcomes of rising carbon emissions, such as droughts, floods, and rising sea levels. Â鶹´«Ã½¡¯s Carmen Bernedo discusses how these effects impact dams, stressing that ¡°reservoir management needs to be agile¡±. Dams may need to be modified to keep up with emerging challenges.

Bernedo explains that ¡°Dam and spillway retrofitting is one of the first options we need to think of when we want to come up with a mitigation or solution for climate change¡±. Â鶹´«Ã½ designed the Santa Anita Dam Spillway Modification Project, constructing a new spillway to combat flood risk for downstream communities. These precautions are critical to meeting the rising standards brought by climate change.?

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