From The Conversation: America’s summer of floods: What cities can learn from today’s climate crises to prepare for tomorrow’s

New Report from the Hazards Center in CO: From the Ashes: Mitigation Policy After Wildfire in California

From Scientific American. Bold New Jersey Short Flood Rules Could be Blueprint for Entire U.S. Coast

From Homeland Security News Wire: Strengthening Puerto Rico’s Power Grid

The 2017 Hurricane Maria made a direct hit on Puerto Rico in 2017, it ravaged the island’s power grid and caused the longest blackout in U.S. history. Maria left many residents without power for nearly a year. As more hurricanes threaten, Puerto Rico utilities are shoring up their defenses using the Electrical Grid Resilience and Assessment System (EGRASS) planning tool.

New report (5 pp) from the CRS: Responding to Drought in the Colorado River
Basin: Federal and State Efforts.

The Colorado River Basin (Figure 1) covers more than 246,000 square miles in seven U.S. states and Mexico. Basin waters are managed and governed by multiple laws, court decisions, and other documents known collectively as the Law of the River. The Colorado River Compact of 1922 established a framework to apportion water supplies between the river’s Upper and Lower Basins (divided at Lee Ferry, AZ). Each basin was allocated 7.5 million acre-feet (MAF) annually under the compact; an additional 1.5 MAF in annual flows was made available to Mexico under a 1944 treaty. Since the Upper Basin’s waters were developed after the Lower Basin, its apportionments are less than the full amount allowed under the compact and are framed in terms of percentages of available supplies. The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) plays a prominent role in basin water management due to the many federally authorized projects in the basin.

FEMA Releases First-Ever National Tribal Strategy

Thanks to Jes Hubbard for this news and citation.

From the CRS, this new (19 page) report: Hazard-Resilient Buildings: Sustaining
Occupancy and Function After a Natural Disaster

From CNN: ‘We thought we were safe’: Kentucky disaster shows how US
is ill-prepared and under-insured for devastating floods

From the WashPost: A disastrous megaflood is coming to California, experts say, and it could be the most expensive natural disaster in history

From Springer open access, this new article: The national risk index: establishing a nationwide baseline for natural hazard risk in the US