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Guardian UK: Expect to see more emergencies like Oroville Dam in a hotter world - Scientists predicted decades ago that climate change would add stress to water management systems like Oroville Dam

Northern California is in the midst of its wettest rainy season on record – twice as wet as the 20th century average, and 35% wetter than the previous record year. It proved to be almost too much for America’s tallest dam to handle. Water managers were forced to use Oroville Dam’s emergency spillway for the first time ever, which then began to erode, posing the threat of a failure and catastrophic flooding of nearby towns.