New infrastructure model prioritizes disaster spending for vulnerable cities

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Jun 23, 2026, 3:20 pm269 ptsTop
A University of Houston engineering professor is helping cities, utilities and transportation agencies prepare for and recover from natural disasters. All these organizations face the same challenge: They know the next hurricane, flood, wildfire or other major disruption will occur, but they do not have enough…

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