With the 2020 hurricane season off to an early start, people in the Bahamas are still recovering from last year’s Hurricane Dorian. The category 5 hurricane’s devastating storm surges over Grand Bahama caused the sea water to overflow their freshwater wells with salt, restricting water use.
Michael Sukop, a professor in the Department of Earth and Environment, recently spoke to WLRN-FM about how this could also happen in South Florida. With similar geology to that of the Bahamas and sea level rise posing a threat, our drinking water supply could face a similar fate if a powerful hurricane like Dorian were to strike South Florida and produce comparable storm surge.
To read the news story by Daniel Rivero, visit WLRN.
