{
  "id": 870868,
  "title": "Can 'digital twins' help California manage its growing flood risk?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/can-digital-twins-help-california-manage-its-growing-flood-risk",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-14T11:50:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-digital-twins-california.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Approximately 1.4 million Californians live in areas at high risk of flooding each year, and climate change is only driving this number up. But flood risk can be a tricky concept for residents and policymakers alike to grasp. Just looking at a FEMA map or knowing that a home is built in a 100-year floodplain doesn't give people an intuitive understanding of how likely it is that a flood will…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}