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Flint, Michigan, has shone a spotlight on the decrepit state and lack of investment in the U.S.’s water infrastructure, but the city isn’t alone in facing these challenges. A new policy brief from the Brookings Institute breaks down how cities with large drinking water utilities are financing their water systems, and what challenges they’re facing. The new research finds a significant mismatch between the need for investment and the resources available.

A pre-Christmas storm with rain, wind and mountain snow will affect much of the western United States. While the storm will bring another dose of drought-denting rain and dump more snow onto the ski slopes, it has the potential to cause major travel disruptions. Enough rain can fall on the urban areas of California to cause sporadic flash flooding. Motorists should allow extra time to travel and reduce their speed on area highways and city streets. Airline delays are likely at the major hubs. Drenching rain will first arrive in southern Oregon and northern California early on Friday morning.

On Tuesday, December 20, Water Deeply will hold its second Water Talk – a monthly lunchtime conversation on hot topics in California water. Senior climate scientist Juliet Christian-Smith of the Union of Concerned Scientists and Max Gomberg, water conservation and climate change manager of the State Water Resources Control Board, will join Water Deeply’s managing editor Tara Lohan to talk about the challenges ahead for California water amid a changing climate. The conversation will cover climate action in California, how climate change is impacting water resources in California and the current political (and ecological) state of climate change.