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SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The Elkhart River in Goshen resembles a serene stream these days, thanks to michiana's drought.

It's a far cry from seven years ago, when the worst flooding in Goshen's history devastated the maple city. Aaron Sawatsky-Kingsley is Goshen's director of environmental resilience. He said just months after the unfathomable flooding in 2018, Purdue University released the Indiana Climate Change Impacts Assessment.

That report cautioned that this kind of natural disaster could keep happening.

"What it was projecting was the role of climate change in driving increased precipitation events going forward," Sawatsky-Kingsley explained, "and so and so we began to wor

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