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...look at the docks that have been moved repeatedly, chasing the receding lake. Or you can simply read a line graph at the reservoir's visitor center, which tracks the water elevation of Lake Mead since it was created by the construction of the Hoover Dam in 1935. After years of relative stability, starting in 2000 the graph resembles the record of a stock-market crash. The visitor center's chart stops at 2006, but as a park ranger tells me, "It just keeps going down from there...
...trillion cu L) of water. But the dry sky above and the rock all around reinforce the inescapable fact that this land was a desert, is a desert and always will be a desert. When the American explorer J.C. Ives visited the present location of the Hoover Dam in 1857, he declared the land "worthless," adding, "There is nothing there to do but leave." Today's residents are hoping there's another choice...
...rebounding Harvard 39-26, and further added to their numbers by capitalizing on the numerous Crimson turnovers to score 27 points. Despite a career-best 23-point contribution from junior forward Evan Harris, Harvard fell to the Bulldogs, 83-71.“We certainly battled them until the dam broke about four or five minutes before halftime,” Amaker said. “I thought it was just a stretch there where they blew it open and ignited things and got out in transition.”A large rally by the opposing team translated into another...
...scientists who came up with the idea, says that the balls reduced the mud's flow temporarily. But the project was abandoned last March when a new government team took over management of the site. More recently, a Japanese team proposed building a 130-ft.-high (40 m high) dam to contain the mud. Scientists familiar with Lusi have dismissed that idea. Because the ground beneath the caldera is still sinking, a heavy concrete dam would likely rupture...
...Still, the health workers of Wantugu are gradually seeing the results of their work. An increasing number of people pay attention to whether their drinking water has been filtered, and rather than wading into Wantugu's dam and potentially re-contaminating the water, some women stand on stones at the water's edge as they fetch. At one point the most endemic community in Ghana, Wantugu has experienced a large reduction in Guinea worm cases recently, from 414 cases in 2006 to 193 cases in 2007. Says Naporow: "Last year at this time we would do case searches and still...