Word: damming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...August, geologists studying the crater rim found that steam escaping from widening fumaroles. or vents, had caused considerable melting of snow and weakened several large rock outcroppings; they warned that as much as 40 million cu. yds. of rock, a mass three times greater than that of Grand Coulee Dam, could break loose, slide into the lake and trigger flooding. In September, researchers from Eastern Washington State College, wearing oxygen masks to protect them from the sulfurous fumes, made their way through cave passages in a 140-ft.-thick layer of ice and snow to reach the center...
With regard to your comment that the gains from the Aswan Dam have been swallowed up by Egypt's population, it should be noted that this project was not an unmitigated benefit. Although the dam made possible the cultivation of 1.3 million acres of formerly arid land, it stands accused of several disasters. The Egyptian Mediterranean fisheries have been virtually wiped out because the nutritional sediment washing downstream that formerly sustained sea life is now silting up the dam. In addition, salt water is moving upstream in the Delta, eroding farm land or making it saline. There has been...
...infusions of the family savings) in a succession of six-month stays in Kenya. The Grindalls have won the respect and affection of the Masai and changed their way of life. The once nomadic tribesmen, guided by Denny and Jeanne, now till vegetable farms around a new self-built dam; Jeanne also teaches the women nutrition, hygiene and how to make clothes. The Grindalls' philosophy is simple: "Individuals have a responsibility to the Lord to use any brain and muscle that He has given us to help others...
...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...