Word: gal
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...Vegas the only sound that rivals the clink of coins is the rush of water. At the Mirage, a flashy hotel complex on the Strip, a cascading 39-ft.- high waterfall gushes 135 gal. per min. Fountains adorn the entranceways to banks, hotels and condominiums. Development communities market "waterfront living" on artificial lakes that sit like giant puddles in the middle of the Mojave. Even the names -- Montego Bay, Shoreline Estates, The Lakes -- reinforce the illusion that water flows abundantly in this desert oasis...
...More than 3,600 protests have been filed with the state engineer, who begins hearings in a few months. No one knows exactly what the long-term impact of pumping so much water -- Las Vegas has requested 200,000 acre-ft. per year (an acre-ft. is 326,000 gal., or enough to cover 1 acre with 1 ft. of water) -- will be on the complex hydrologic system of the area. Environmentalists say excessive pumping will dry up springs and wetlands, threatening numerous endangered species, plants and wildlife from southeastern California to Utah. The Federal Government plans to deny...
...biggest complaints of rural residents is that Las Vegas has not done enough to save the water it has. Per-capita water consumption in the metropolitan area has consistently been among the highest of Western cities: 366 gal. daily compared with 200 gal. in Los Angeles. Recent restrictions have reduced Vegas' consumption to 343 gal...
Thus Exxon's oil slick, which holds the North American record for volume (11 million gal.), cleanup costs ($2.5 billion) and bad publicity, has now set a new high mark for penalty payouts -- almost 40 times as great as any previous spill. Nonetheless, one critic denounced the settlement as an inadequate "back-room deal," while company chairman Lawrence G. Rawl declared that it "will not have a noticeable effect" on Exxon's financial results. But Attorney General Dick Thornburgh said it "sends a very important signal that there are criminal consequences for this kind of activity...
...apparently would like, most consumers can live with that, and business had been forecasting such a price for 1991 before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait last summer. Gasoline prices are lower than before the invasion, if the effect of a new nickel-per-gal. federal tax is discounted. Cheaper jet fuel is welcome news for the nation's tortured airline industry...