Word: reservoirs
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...moved to nearby Chisasibi now have electricity, running water and ties to the outside world, but they have lost their traditional way of life. Many ancestral hunting lands are underwater, and the natives can no longer eat local fish because of mercury contamination stemming from the creation of a reservoir upstream. Crammed together and often idle, they suffer from soaring rates of alcoholism, suicide, vandalism and family violence. About 30% of them have high levels of mercury in their bodies. "When we were on the island, we had less," says Larry House, a community leader, "but we were happy...
According to Cusack, THM levels have remained at around 40-50 ppb over the past three months. He credited the recent completion of a cover over the city's reservoir as a major factor in the improvement...
...tank of chlorine sprung a leak at a Cambridge water filtering plant yesterday, releasing a pool of highly corrosive liquid into the surrounding area and forcing a smallscale evacuation of the area around Fresh Pond Reservoir...
...Houck was ousted from his Missouri River bottomland to make way for the Oahe reservoir. He moved to the plains northwest of Fort Pierre, S. Dak., and put his purebred cattle on grass. They were devastated in the 1966 blizzard, and so Houck decided to experiment with buffalo. Today he has 3,000 head that seem to thrive in the cold and the heat. Houck slaughters a thousand bison a year and sells all the meat he can produce. Bill Mathers doubts he will ever switch to bison. But as he stands on Horse Creek Butte and looks...
...challenge. In the early years, Abdul Aziz struggled to hold together a scattered and widely disparate population of tribes. But he and his successors -- sons Saud, Faisal, Khalid and now Fahd -- were greatly aided in their task by the lucky presence beneath their feet of the world's largest reservoir of oil. The revenues from black crude -- which reached a high of $113 billion in 1981 and this year are expected to top $60 billion -- have enabled the House of Saud to create a modern state almost overnight and, in the process, buy the continued fealty of its subjects. First...