Word: damming
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...Guifu's farmland is still above water, and for that he can thank China's environmental movement. For years power companies have longed to dam the Nu River, which flows flat and olive drab below the fields where Yu and his family earn $1,200 a year growing corn, rice and strawberries. So far they haven't succeeded. "That river hasn't changed in my lifetime," says Yu, 50, as he rolls a cigarette and squishes his bare feet in a soft embankment. "But I don?t know what will happen next...
...LAWRENCE Outdated dam-management plan...
...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...