Word: damse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flood control is vital in California, where the nightmare is water-too much in the rainy north, too little in the arid south. Key to California's burgeoning economy is a multimillion-dollar system of dams and reservoirs that channels northern water into the fertile but dry Central Valley...
Men have dammed the Nile in many places, but still it drifts sluggishly for half the year leaving much good land parched, and then spews its silt-laden floodwaters, wasted, into the Mediterranean. Dams upstream in Ethiopia, Uganda and the Sudan are out of Egypt's control and too...
¶Governors. Senators and Representatives of four Western states voted to drop the controversial Echo Park Dam from their plan to develop power resources on the upper Colorado River. Conservationists had opposed the plan, angrily pointing out that the Echo Park Dam would flood the Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado...
¶FPC flashed the green light for construction of the Priest Rapids and Wanapum Dams on the Columbia River. They will be built by the Grant County (Wash.) Public Utility District, which had to fight objections of the state power commission before it could take on the job. The P.U.D...
This conclusion should not suggest that if the United States had financed the Aswan dam in the first place, Russia would not have made its offers and there would be no Middle East tensions. Such dams cost over $1 billion, and the U.S. obviously can't go building them wherever...