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...AUBURN-FOLSOM PROJECT. The fight over the $1 billion scheme on California's American River provides a case study in the realities of water politics. Governor Jerry Brown, an ardent environmentalist, had campaigned for office as an opponent of new dams, but the severe drought, which has forced some of his Northern California constituents to haul water by the bucket, has changed Brown's mind. When Carter put Auburn-Folsom on his list, Brown came out in favor of the project, which is designed to irrigate 29,000 acres and provide supplemental water to 387,000 more. Brown...
...come. North Dakota's three-man congressional delegation was there, as were most state officials and nearly the entire state legislature, which made the 100-mile trip from Bismarck to attend. Backing the project, State Representative Michael Unhjem bitterly asked: "I wonder if Georgia ever had a drought during...
...Wells. Recent dry spells have made the world even more conscious of just how limited global water supplies really are. In many areas of the U.S. West, for example, the current drought (TIME, March 7) has accelerated the depletion of underground aquifers already strained by the rapid growth in population and agriculture. Many wells have already run dry, forcing farmers to dig deeper and more expensive ones in an effort to reach the declining water levels. Some farmers in the Texas Panhandle, who have been drawing their water from the deep and bounteous Ogallala aquifer, calculate that their wells will...
...galloping epidemic of inflation jitters has spread through the economy in recent weeks. Public fears of runaway prices have been stirred by the recent leap in fuel, food and other living costs caused by the winter's bitter cold and crop-killing drought in the West. Businessmen and investors also worry about the back-to-back budget deficits (totaling $125 billion this year and in fiscal 1978) that President Carter has estimated as one result of his program to stimulate the economy. Irwin L. Kellner, vice president of Manufacturers Hanover Trust, fears a return to consistent double-digit inflation...
...becomes five years old. And many of those who survive are mentally and physically retarded because of malnutrition. These people are not part of a disaster famine that captures the attention of the news media; they die of slow starvation in India, Latin America, and Africa. And when drought robs their crops of water, disastrous famine quickly sets in because, having been weakened by malnutrition, they have no defense against starvation. In the African Sahel, Bangladesh, and India, millions have perished under these famine conditions...