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...poor countries must recognize that they are-as U.S. Economist Rawle Farley puts it-in an "anxious race between demography and development." In nearly all the developing nations, the consumption demands of increased population are undermining even the best strategies for economic development. Egypt's Aswan High Dam, for instance, has added 25% to that country's arable land; yet, between 1955 when plans for the dam were conceived and 1970 when the project was completed, the population of the country swelled a staggering 50%, to more than 30 million...
...first time in El Bahu's history, there is a water faucet in the village and the people have clean water to drink instead of the silt-heavy Nile. Only a few hundred yards away, the people can see power lines bringing electricity generated by the Aswan High Dam 500 miles to the south. Within a year they too will have light for their houses. As a result, there is a new kind of farmer in the Nile delta, who buys up land in anticipation of what progress the dam will bring...
...Baghdad and Damascus have improved, the two neighbors have frequently been at the brink of war - sometimes over ideology, but sometimes over rights to the waters of the Euphrates River. Last fall both governments rushed troops to the border after Iraq complained that Syria's vast new Tabqa dam on the Euphrates, built with Soviet funds and assistance, was depriving Iraqi farmers downstream of necessary water...
...does The Day the Dam Broke, a classic Thurber apocalypse, succeed as a twenty minute dramatic monologue, although Kerry Konrad struggles bravely through it. But in the second act, where the skits are fewer and the acting more demanding, everything comes together, culminating in James Doherty's painfully schizo portrayal of Walter Mitty...
...event that would release money for the study of earthquake prediction and control is the very disaster that scientists are trying to avert: a major quake striking a highly populated area without any warning. Tens of thousands of people living in the flood plain of the Van Norman Dam had a close call four years ago in the San Fernando Valley quake; had the tremor lasted a few more seconds, the dam might have given way. When the San Andreas Fault convulses again-as it surely must-or when another, less notorious fault elsewhere in the U.S. suddenly gives...