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...encouraging the public to report polluters, to take part in the environmental-impact-assessment process, and to use the legal system to take the most egregious offenders to court. Beijing has also opened the door to thousands of environmental NGOs that now openly tackle issues such as biodiversity protection, dam resettlement and public-health awareness. Nevertheless, the government remains wary of too much citizen activism, fearing calls for broader political reform. NGO leaders who tread into politically sensitive areas have been barred from further activity, prevented from leaving the country and even arrested...
...breakdowns in the system? The good news is that most disasters don't compare to Katrina. Even 9/11 was not in the same category since the infrastructure of New York City--bridges, tunnels and roads--remained largely intact. That said, earthquakes, nuclear attacks or, say, the demolition of a dam near an urban center would create similarly appalling levels of destruction, experts say. Now the bad news: the response would probably be worse because we would have less time to prepare...
...scarce supplies. Portugal said it would use 15% less water from the Douro River, which flows from central Spain into the Atlantic at Porto. But such comity was met with bafflement by some; Portuguese farmers complained that while their Spanish counterparts can profit from the recently completed Alqueva Dam in southern Portugal, close to the Spanish border, no irrigation system yet exists to get water to their own parched fields and livestock. "They are going to give the Spaniards water to irrigate their crops and then the Spaniards will sell their crops back to us," says Diogo Morgado, president...
...Number of men arrested for spreading postdeluge rumors of a tsunami, landslides and a burst dam; the last scare set off a deadly stampede...
...debate over the O'Shaughnessy Dam continues, politicians and water managers throughout the Western states will be watching. This is a debate that has the potential to broaden into a long-overdue discussion of just how the rapidly growing population of this arid, drought-prone region plans to meet its water needs without sucking dry every river and aquifer. The future of development in the West may rest on what happens to this elegant dam and the valley it flooded so long...