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The Toccoa tragedy is a challenge to civil authorities, as well as to the religious faith of its surviving victims. It dramatizes the inadequacy of the nation's safety program for dams-federal, state and private. Congress passed a Dam Inspection Act in 1972, but it was not properly...
At his press conference last week, President Carter vowed the Government would "pursue without surcease" the federal inspection program with the $15 million. He has asked the Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation for proposals to regulate the safety of the 47,500 privately owned dams. Earlier, White...
A. Not very easily, say the people who should know: the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They believe it is in the national interest to cede control of the waterway. Acting alone, surrounded by a hostile population not only in Panama but in the rest of Latin America, the U.S. would...
California has long employed all manner of drought technology, which enables its farms to flourish. It has built a strong $10 billion system of dams, canals, reservoirs and other tributaries. More important, it has pioneered in new agritech-nologies that carefully ration water. Many California farms use irrigation-scheduling programs...
The more liberal Congress is on the verge of passing three bills that could exceed his spending plans by $3.5 billion-and he may well veto one or more of them. Paying no heed to the President's protest that various dams, canals and irrigation projects are too costly...