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When the Howard Hanson Dam was first built on the Green River in western Washington in 1962, the concrete behemoth was hailed as the new protector of the valley below. Until that point, the Green River Valley was regularly inundated during the flood season, which runs from late October through March. "We had an almost annual flood," recalls Governor Christine Gregoire, who grew up in the valley. "Only when I was in high school and they built the Howard Hanson Dam did we see an end to the flooding." Now, should the water rise to dangerous levels, engineers will...
...chance that you'll need to use it? That's generally not a gamble insurers like to take. Fortunately for Green River Valley, King County belongs to the National Flood Insurance Program, which means that residents cannot be turned down for flood insurance (unless they've built something in direct violation of regional flood codes, that is), and that effectively, even though some 90 insurance companies administer the policies, it is the government providing the insurance itself. "There is nobody in the Green River area that should not be able to get flood insurance," says Jeff Woodward, the region...
...private insurance companies out of business and eventually lead to a single-payer system, with the government as the only viable entity selling insurance. "My first job is to get this bill across the finish line," Baucus said during the committee's fifth day of debate. "Rome was not built in a day." (See 10 health-care-reform...
...establishing a Lakes Development Authority, implement a "no-construction zone," undertake continuous de-silting steps and other restrictive measures. Two years later, none of the court's directives have been implemented. "There's too much political finger-pointing and not enough problem solving," says Arvind Singh Mewar, whose ancestors built the lake system and who now heads HRH Hotels, a chain of 12 heritage properties, including five in Udaipur, converted from family palaces and hunting lodges. "Like my forefathers, I feel it's my responsibility to bring us together to take action quickly or lose our greatest asset, both environmentally...
...Lake Conservation Society. Until six years ago, 25 tons of solid waste and 6 million liters of raw sewage were dumped into the lakes each day. Now, he says, those numbers have been reduced by 60%. But the local government has made an impact too: a drainage system, built by Udaipur's Urban Improvement Trust (a district regulatory body) and the Rajasthan government's Public Health Engineering Department, now diverts sewage downstream, though a treatment plant has yet to be installed...