In at least one respect, the floods that ravaged Iowa in 2008 are similar to the floodwaters that ravaged coastal Texas cities after Hurricane Harvey roared through in 2017. The natural disasters left both states grappling with how to rebuild and prepare for the next massive flood event.

Cities across the U.S. have seen unprecedented rainfall and flooding over the last several years, one of the most hard-hit communities in the state of Texas.

Around 30 delegates from state and federal agencies in Texas are spending their week at the Iowa Flood Center in Iowa City, learning how to protect their communities back home from devastating floods.

A delegation of Texas state officials visited the Iowa flood Center to learn more about ways to protect their state and apply some of the unique and innovative measures invented at the University of Iowa.

As a leader in technologies and tools capable of improving flood readiness and resiliency, the University of Iowa-based Iowa Flood Center this week welcomed a delegation from the nation's largest contiguous state wanting to learn from the flood preparation path Iowa has forged.

In 2020, we must accept the water-quantity and -quality challenges we face and work together - the Iowa way - to come up with meaningful, science-based solutions.

During recent extreme flooding events in Southwest Wisconsin, local residents would maze around a hodge-podge of forecasting information, trying to gain an understanding of what is happening in real time.

With a year of unprecedented flooding in Iowa nearly behind us and our nation witnessing the horrific devastation of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas and southern states, it's clearer now, more than ever, that we need common-sense reforms that help our communities address the increasing threat of flooding.

Year after year, large scale flooding events continue to destroy parts of the Upper Midwest. In the last few years, areas in Western Wisconsin have been some of the hardest hit.

Iowa may be known as a swing state, but Iowa City, home of the state’s flagship public university, has a reputation as liberal.