Word: aqueduct
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...will flow into the St. Croix River, to the Mississippi, south to an aqueduct at Keokuk, Iowa, and from there west to the Colorado River and into the Grand Canyon and many other southwestern canyons, filling them up to the rims--enough water to supply the parched Southwest from Los Angeles to Santa Fe for more than 50 years...
...unfolds, the teenage heroes fight the system; Nora and Mark hit it off and take on the school administration. What was thought to be a pastoral place of learning and enrichment in the hills (which are actually outside of Los Angeles, as proven by the shot of the LA Aqueduct) turns out to be full of troubled kids. Happy Harry's hotline for the teenage blues becomes controversial when he criticizes the school board's expulsion of a pregnant student, and when one of his callers commits suicide. When bootleg copies of the show played during breaks at the school...
...Hitting a quad" in my practice is as rare as winning the daily double at Aqueduct. The televangelists have, and they appear the most pathological...
...stop some developments. Last summer scores of people took to France's Gardon River in canoes to protest a government project that would have brought motorized trains, parking lots, a museum and even a shopping arcade close to the historic Pont du Gard, a 2,000-year-old Roman aqueduct near Remoulins. The Pont already draws more than 2 million visitors a year. Historians, environmentalists and locals also joined forces against a commercial project planned for Chambord, one of the most illustrious of the Loire Valley chateaus. The castle was scheduled to become the site of a "Renaissance" theme park...
Some parts of the West will remain vulnerable with or without conservation. Southern California gets roughly half of its water from a single canal system, the California Aqueduct, which carries water from the Sacramento River Delta 800 km (500 miles) south to Los Angeles. Mark Reisner, author of Cadillac Desert, an examination of Western water, notes that the delta is sinking by as much as 7.6 cm (3 in.) a year, leaving the area, much of it already below sea level, ever more vulnerable to seawater intrusion. A major earthquake on the nearby Hayward fault could destroy the levees that...