For some of us living with water relates to things like turning on the tap and discovering the water has a funny taste and further experimentation allows you to set it on fire, or you turn on the tap and everything below the basket falls off because its old and rotten and for the last decade nobody has been spending any money on replacing rotting infrastructure
Maybe for you its the roof leaks, or the basement floods, or last winter it just never stopped snowing and the drifts haven't melted yet.
For California I'm aware that the water has packed up and left and taken the kids.
West Texas, the southwest and soon the midwest would be in the same boat if there was any water left to float it. For the Great Lakes its invasive species.
Looking at the East coast as modeled by Florida, it appears we have a bit more than we need with the latest projections scrubbing the 2 feet by 2050 and 2 meters by 2100 with 3 meters and 5 meters respectively. Our rising sea levels are what will take us out.
This is a design competition sponsored by the City of Boston, The Boston Redevelopment Authority, The Boston Housing Authority, The Boston Society of Architects, The Barr Foundation and others.
The semi finalist submissions are dealing with the IPCC projections from Report V, so not as yet realizing that melting polar ice will before long have flooded the city to the point where seawalls and levees can't stop it, and eventually 60 meters.
This condition will apply to the entirety of the Bos/Wash a continuous strip city or megalopolis first identified in the sixties and now extending to Florida with more than 100 cities with populations over 100,000 facing destruction from flooding and FEMA and the EPA letting local communities know there will be no affordable flood insurance and no new mortgages without it; no replenishment of beaches and jetties, no repair of seawalls and levees.
In some cases such as Florida, Louisiana, New Jersey, Delaware whole states will be lost, in other cases the flooding will only extend inland 100 miles or so.
In that strip is 90% of our aging rotted infrastructure. If we replace it where it stands it will just be lost to flooding. If we relocate it inland we have to take everything; transportation, seaports, airports, railroads, roads, bridges, tunnels; communications, commerce, housing, public infrastructure, sports stadiums, convention centers, shopping malls, politically gerrymandered districts and precincts... Police, Fire, Power plants, water and sewage treatment plants, most of our manufacturing, most of our agriculture, well established neighborhoods...
The master planning is data intensive and will take upwards of twenty five years.
I'd like to know what people think about this. Salvaging and relocating all of our cities will require an investment of more than a trillion dollars every year for the next century and will have to be coordinated with new plans for alternative energy, mass transit, hydroponics and aquaculture to help mediate climate change.
When we are done there will very likely be either twice as many people living on the planet, 14-16 Billion of us, or the tropics will be uninhabitable and the population crash will have destroyed civilization as we know it.