Word: damming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, the outlook is hardly brighter. The 300-megawatt Rihand dam has been closed by water shortages; last month, power was cut by 40% throughout the state. Electric steel furnaces until last week were allowed no power at all and had to shut down completely. In the city of Ghaziabad, other industries are allowed power to operate only between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. That move saves power for domestic and office use during the day, but it automatically idles 15% of the factory work force of 70,000, since women are forbidden...
...publisher William Loeb once called it--was happy to provide Israel with most of the arms and diplomatic support it needed. The Soviet Union, evidently sharing the United States' view, was happy not only to replace the U.S. as Egypt's supplier of arms and help with the Aswan Dam when John Foster Dulles grew disgusted with Egyptian president Nasser's neutralism and nationalizations, but also to go the United States one better, sending technicians where the United States sent arms...
More important are things like the 63-year-old Leverett Dam. There are plans for a new dam, but the old one can't be changed because the Science Museum is on top of it. The dam lets sea water leak into the Charles Basin, where it settles to the bottom because it is denser than fresh water, slowing down the water's circulation and helping to stratify the Basin. "Eventually," Noss said, "there's a layer so dense that normal river current just flows over it and it's not freshened, so to speak, by the fresh water...
...Charles would still be able to use considerable help in cleaning itself out--help only partly provided by even the most grandiose of the planned treatment facilities. One such plant is a $250,000 experiment which might be extended to the whole river (via a large plant at Watertown Dam) if it succeeds in cleaning up Storrow Lagoon next summer. The plant will treat water already in the Charles with chemicals that bind with river water "to form a matrix in a fluffy kind of stuff," as Noss put it. There's some skepticism as to how well the plant...
Massachusetts will spend about $53 million on this year's river-related projects, and that's without including federal projects such as the new dam, a $43 million baby of the Corps of Engineers. There's supposed to be a comprehensive river cleanup plan by June...