Word: hydrologists
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...catalogue is immense. But for all his works and all his study, man's understanding of water remains curiously limited. "Considering the forces that man is trying to affect," says Dr. Raymond L. Nace, a U.S. Government hydrologist, "we can say that he has scarcely made a dent." But scientists keep trying. Attempts at weather control, for example, have been as unsuccessful and unreliable as appeals to the rain gods of old, yet researchers continue to seed clouds with silver iodide and Dry Ice, hopeful that they may some day learn to manage what they cannot yet predict...
...engineers and scientists of the International Hydrological Decade expand man's knowledge of water, man will have to face up to critical decisions. And in the U.S., at least, the questions are not so much technical as they are problems of economics and management. "After the hydrologist states the problem," says Dr. Nace, who proposed the idea of the 1HD and became the chief U.S. representative of the Decade, "the policymakers must solve it." Thus, the great problem is people. "How many of them know what water is about?" asks William E. Warne, director of the California Department...