Word: dam
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...years the source of that water seemed inexhaustible. Much of it comes + from 165-sq.-mi., dam-created Gatun Lake, through which the ships pass on their route across the isthmus. Most of the remainder is tapped from nearby Madden Lake, formed in 1935 (also by damming) to provide an additional reservoir of water for the dry season. But now a 375-page report by Stanley Heckadon Moreno, an environmentalist at Panama's Ministry of Planning, has raised a startling worry about the canal's future: it may be running short of water...
Infinitely happy that he has said this, Person Two chuckles inwardly. The dam is broken...
...After that, the dam broke," Co-captain Ray LaRaja said...
...nights, but Noah would feel at home in an area stretching from the Great Lakes down through the Midwest. By last week Michigan had suffered 22 straight days of downpours. Some 2,700 people were evacuated from floods around Chicago, and St. Louis was partly submerged. A damaged dam in Wisconsin was threatening to burst. A tornado ripped through Oklahoma City...
...husband, Yakutat Mayor Larry Powell, agrees. While it is possible that the ice dam will give way under mounting water pressure behind it, there is no guarantee. He suggests that a channel be dug from the lake to the sea, bypassing the Situk so that the trapped water can escape without affecting the river. Others propose bombing the glacier: controlled explosions could blast a trench through the ice itself. But speed may be essential. Says Powell: "We're just now entering the rainy season, and at the rate it's filling, the lake could be ready to make its jump...