Word: droughts
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...state's commercial Chinook salmon catch depends on the estuary, but more than half the salmon swimming up the Sacramento River to lay eggs are blocked by the Red Bluff Diversion Dam. Those that get by are often unable to spawn in overheated waters coming from drought-stricken Shasta Lake. The San Joaquin River is entirely diverted for irrigation as it emerges from the Sierra Nevada. When it resumes downstream near the Kesterson Reservoir, selenium-poisoned waters flow into it from the Westlands agricultural district...
...problems have been compounded by a five-year drought. In 1990 the state created a water bank that allowed cities to bid for some agricultural water. Some environmentalists support the scheme -- and are being criticized for it. "The enviros have been pimps for water marketing," says environmental consultant William Kier. He notes that Yuba City uses less than 10% of its water entitlement from the New Bullards Bar Reservoir, then sells the remainder to Southern California rather than allow it to replenish the fragile delta system...
...Where torture and disappearances once silenced opposition voices, Ethiopians now feel free to voice their demands and even shout insults at President Meles Zenawi, a democratic exercise he withstands calmly. "That's their right," says Meles. With the recent rains, even the gods seem to be smiling on the drought-ravaged land...
...prevailing profit drought "holds down capital spending and is behind a lot of layoffs," says Lawrence Chimerine, senior adviser to the forecasting firm DRI-McGraw Hill. Concurs Allen Sinai, chief economist for the Boston Co. Economic Advisers: "Pressure on profits means cost cutting will remain part of the vise that is squeezing consumers...
...woes have been long in the making. Such reliables as The Cosby Show and The Golden Girls are aging, and NBC has no new hits to take up the slack. One consolation: other networks are facing a similar drought. So far, only one new program has made the top 20 -- ABC's Home Improvement...