Word: basin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress created a 58,000-acre Redwood National Park in California, a 505,000-acre North Cascades National Park in Washington, a National Water Commission to study national water-resources problems. It also ended decades of interstate controversy by authorizing a $1.3 billion plan to develop the Colorado River Basin...
Promise and Backdown. The La Brea y Pariñas basin has long troubled Peruvian pride. IPC, owner of the fields since 1924, has tried to appease various governments by agreeing to several tax increases. It now is the country's No. 1 taxpayer...
...syllabary in 1828, providing a written Indian language. Now Toadsuck Ferry is gone, replaced by a bridge, and Dwight Mission lies under the waters of a reservoir. Both are victims of one of the most ambitious and controversial public-works schemes in U.S. history-the $1.2 billion Arkansas Basin Navigation Project. Formally dedicated in Little Rock last week, the project has been both praised as a plan to revolutionize the region and assailed as a silly extravagance...
...Sobriety. Sundered, stricken Nigeria is a far different place from the fast-developing territory that in 1960 won final independence from Britain and thus became Africa's most populous country. No other on the continent had a more promising future or a more exciting present. Occupying the wide basin of the mighty Niger River, Nigeria's 56 million people had built a sturdy economy and installed an active parliamentary government. Because British colonial law had largely prevented white men from owning land, the enterprise of black traders and businessmen flourished, based on exports of palm oil and cocoa. Four years...
...cities make cost-benefit choices and balance the system. Equally vital are economic incentives, such as taxing specific pollutants so that factories stop using them. Since local governments may be loath to levy effluence charges, fearing loss of industry, the obvious need is regional cooperation, such as interstate river-basin authorities to enforce scientific water use. Germany's Ruhr River is ably governed this way. A shining U.S. example is the eight-state Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission, which persuaded 3,000 cities and industries to spend $1 billion diverting 99% of their effluent to sewage plants...