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20 years on from Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans has some of the most impressive flood defences in the world. The city was rebuilt at enormous cost – over $125bn in today’s dollars. But is it really prepared for the next big one?  


On the Weekend Intelligence the Economist’s Southern Correspondent Rebecca Jackson travels to New Orleans, two decades after the devastation of one of America’s deadliest storms, to ask whether it makes sense to sustain a sinking city.



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