Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could Go First

Miami-Dade is built on the Biscayne Aquifer, 4,000 square miles of unusually shallow and porous limestone whose tiny air pockets are filled with rainwater and rivers running from the swamp to the ocean. The aquifer and the infrastructure that draws from it, cleans its water, and keeps it from overrunning the city combine to form a giant but fragile machine. Without this abundant source of fresh water, made cheap by its proximity to the surface, this hot, remote city could become uninhabitable.

As sea levels rise, this aquifer will become polluted with salt water and it becomes undrinkable. As that happens Miami will likely resort to desalination. But eventually sea levels drown Miami. Even today a high tide can make its way into the city:

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