Could Houston Have Engineered Its Way Around a Harvey-Size Storm?

This story originally appeared on Wired and has been republished here with permission from Climate Desk. Addicks and Barker reservoirs are swaths of placid Texas prairie, wetland, and forest straddling I-10 where it hits Highway 6, about 20 miles west of downtown Houston. But that’s not how nature sees them. To nature, those two open spaces are the top of a hydrological basin that drains through the city and into the Houston Ship Channel. Most of the time the reservoirs don’t reserve...