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While there are some fully off-grid dwellers, ranging from high-end desert oases and North Coast communes to the famous counterculture settlement of Imperial County’s “Slab City,” an off-grid suburb is one of a kind.

Like many apartment dwellers here, I don’t have central air or heating.

"The inner coast killer whales are like city dwellers," said co-author Dr. Andrew Trites, IOF professor and director of the Marine Mammal Research Unit.

But it had managed to develop methods and technologies to allow both farmers and city dwellers to have all the water they needed.

City dwellers face a particularly nasty flooding threat from rainfall: Overwhelmed stormwater systems can regurgitate raw sewage.