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On the recordMarch 9, 2023
a 2022 study found that worsening climate change has more than tripled the risk of a trillion-dollar megaflood in my own State of California compared to a century ago.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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Waters highlights the increased flood risk due to climate change in California.

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