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Replacing CFCs in newly built equipment, however, is only half the job. Virtually every existing refrigerator and air conditioner is a CFC reservoir. The chemicals are not a problem as long as they continue to circulate within an appliance. But if the machine is carelessly drained, junked or damaged, the CFCs can escape to attack the ozone. The real task for those countries that invested heavily in CFCs in the past is to develop systems for recovering and recycling the chemicals they have already used...
...been brought to the surface. In the mind of Japan, the superpower on the other side of the Pacific is both an object of respect and envy, of emulation and repulsion, of gratitude and contempt. Despite the years of wrangling between the two nations, Japan retains a large reservoir of good feeling toward the U.S. For the Japanese, America is the foreign country, the one that is admired and imitated, the standard for measuring national success...
Several underground ponds were carved from solid rock -- some of them, according to Fowler's estimates, were 10 ft. deep and 200 ft. across. One was to be a reservoir for drinking water; others were used to cool the air pumped through the complex's massive mainframe computers to prevent them from overheating. Side tunnels were dug, and more than 20 cavernous offices were put in, some shored up with concrete. To withstand the severe exterior shock of a nuclear blast, the roof areas of the tunnels and rooms were reinforced with 21,000 iron bolts sunk...
...blocked by the Red Bluff Diversion Dam. Those that get by are often unable to spawn in overheated waters coming from drought-stricken Shasta Lake. The San Joaquin River is entirely diverted for irrigation as it emerges from the Sierra Nevada. When it resumes downstream near the Kesterson Reservoir, selenium-poisoned waters flow into it from the Westlands agricultural district...
...cities to bid for some agricultural water. Some environmentalists support the scheme -- and are being criticized for it. "The enviros have been pimps for water marketing," says environmental consultant William Kier. He notes that Yuba City uses less than 10% of its water entitlement from the New Bullards Bar Reservoir, then sells the remainder to Southern California rather than allow it to replenish the fragile delta system...