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Meanwhile, a few hours' flying time from Durban, in the eastern Congo basin, a war whose roots lie in European colonialism, economic exploitation and intra-African ethnic hatred continued unabated. For what happened last week, disgrace is too kind a word...
...enterprise earned an icy reprimand from Michigan Governor John Engler, former chairman of the Council of Great Lakes Governors, who reminded village officials that the eight Great Lakes Governors were "required to approve all diversions and exports of water" from the U.S. section of the Great Lakes basin. "There are places even in New York State that are crazy for water," steamed Mayor William Ruoff, who added that inquiries had come from as far away as Texas and Switzerland. "Why shouldn't we help them when we have water to spare?" Not to mention village coffers to line. At current...
Opponents say it's not the profit they object to but the precedent Webster's plan would set. The Great Lakes basin contains 18% of the world's freshwater, though that doesn't necessarily mean there is water to spare. In a 1999 report, the U.S.-Canada International Joint Commission warned that levels in lakes Michigan and Huron had dropped 22 in. from the previous year--"the most precipitous drop in recorded history," says the IJC's Frank Bevacqua--and last year the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted that levels would fall an additional...
POWDER RIVER BASIN...
With 100 new wells drilled each week on prime grazing land, the once bucolic landscape of the Powder River Basin is changing dramatically and uniting old foes--ranchers and environmentalists...