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When not opening new dams, primary schools and public works, Sihanouk lives comfortably in a suburban villa near his capital city of Pnompenh, where he composes music and relaxes with such 19th century French authors as Alfred de Musset. TIME Correspondent Jerry Schecter last week interviewed Cambodia's versatile...
Use the Dams. Furtado's plan begins at the arid roots. For years water-craving northeasterners built dams willy-nilly, saw them fill up in the rainy season, then slowly and uselessly dry out when the rains stopped. Furtado plans to send the stored water through irrigation canals, increase...
Boating is so popular in Texas because it is so improbable. Although Gulf Coast residents have long had access to water, most other Texans until fairly recently have not been able to find enough water to skip a stone. But in the past 20 years, government dams and flood-control...
Main purpose of all four dams is to fend off the sea and its damaging flood tides. But with the salt water blocked off, the estuaries will slowly fill up with fresh water from the rivers. By means of five smaller dams farther inland, the sweet water can be sluiced...
Just the Beginning. As spring of 1961 comes to the high country, work is forging ahead at half a dozen dusty sites on the Upper Colorado Basin Project, the most ambitious water-harnessing program in U.S. history. The effort now includes four huge dam complexes and eleven satellite projects, is...