MPR: Wetter weather causing sewage headaches for MN cities

What happens when you add climate change to aging water infrastructure? Sewage goes where it shouldn't.

Check out this article from MPR's Kirsti Marohn, with FMR's water program director Trevor Russell, on how climate change is forcing cities to grapple with extreme rainfalls that can overwhelm wastewater treatment plants.
 

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