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...huge canal would connect the Pechora River-which flows north into the Barents Sea region of the Arctic Ocean-with the southward-flowing Kama River, a tributary of the mighty Volga (see map page 82). Once the link is made and the necessary dams constructed, part of the Pechora's water will be diverted downhill into the Kama and thence into the Volga, which is the Caspian's major source of new water. The increased flow should stabilize the level of the inland sea. At a recent meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, the Soviets...
Other American scientists, however, warn that reducing the northward flow of the Pechora's relatively warm fresh-river water could reduce the temperature of the Arctic Ocean and cause the ice to expand. Or the Arctic Ocean could become saltier, resulting in a lower freezing point and causing the ice to melt. In either case, the river-reversal scheme has the potential to cause major climatological repercussions...
...pulp plants install antipollution devices required by law. Izvestia is complaining about a metallurgical plant that has illegally "poisoned" the air of Rustavi, near Tbilisi. In Russia's far north, Pravda says, an oil-drilling crew did not take "the most basic precautions" to avoid polluting the Pechora River...
Future Soviet nuclear projects, Seaborg says, are even more ambitious. The Russians are considering blasting a deep channel that would divert water from the Pechora River to the nearby Kama River, which flows into the Caspian Sea. That linkup, engineers anticipate, would increase the amount of water supplied to the Caspian Sea, which has dropped nearly ten feet in the past 35 years, affecting docking facilities, caviar-producing sturgeon and even the local climate...
G.V.P. proposes to correct the situation by raising the level of the upper reaches of the north-flowing Pechora and Vychegda Rivers (see map). Here in the flatlands, an imperceptible earth curve is all that determines whether rivers flow south to the grainfields or north to the Arctic. G.V.P. wants them to flow south. The Kuibyshev dam has already been started. All the rest of G.V.P. is still just a bright gleam in the Soviet...