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...fast, Aquaman. Regulators and environmentalists want a long look at dam-free hydro. Krouse knows that what he calls the "sushi problem"--turbines slashing passing fish--will be a big concern. He says fish whacks will be minimal...
...Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued 11 three-year "preliminary permits" for hydro, with installations at locations including Puget Sound in Washington, San Francisco's Golden Gate and New York City's East River. An additional 38 applications are pending. Hydro developer Verdant Power Inc. already has fish-monitoring equipment in the East River, with plans to install two turbines in November and four more early next year...
...Harvard is a small fish in a pretty big barrel. Arnold M. Howitt, Executive Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, says that there are lots of potential targets, reducing the likelihood of an attack in the Yard...
...caused rice to stop growing and cancer rates to spike. But just last month, a tributary of the Tangbai was so polluted that when a TIME reporter drove by, hundreds of people stood along the banks of a stream with a powerful chemical stench, pulling out dead and dying fish. According to the fishermen, the same thing happened every month when paper mills and fertilizer factories upstream discharged their wastewater tanks. Stripped to their underwear and wading into the foul water with nets and baskets, the locals regarded the situation as predictable, even humdrum - an aid to fishing...
...when pollution strong enough to kill fish by the bucket-load becomes commonplace, it's more than the water that's tainted. The Yellow River's turning red may be another warning to Beijing of the perils that lurk in its waterways...