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Amen to that. But now Georgia's politicians are fighting to protect their culture of consumption and development by suspending the Endangered Species Act, so that they won't have to send any water downstream to preserve endangered mussels in Florida's Apalachicola River. It's not a very holy attitude. Those mussels are God's creatures too--and so are the oystermen and fishermen who depend on the Apalachicola. Anyway, stiffing them won't save Atlanta. That's going to require serious water management and long-term thinking. In other words, a miracle...
...BEATEN TRACK The Wachau region, just an hour and a half from Vienna, boasts beautiful vineyards perched on steep hills falling into the Danube River. Stay at Hotel Schloss Dürnstein (43-271-12-12; schloss.at) for a King Richard the Lionhearted experience...
...China this summer, and I saw blue skies for an entire week. I took a trip to the north of Harbin, a major city several hours from Beijing, and stopped at the Heilong River just south of the Russia-China border. I saw my own reflection in a stream and drank from a spring without contracting diarrhea. I also climbed an observation tower and saw miles and miles of virgin forests...
...smorgasbord of Army Corps of Engineers water projects because it included a few projects for the Everglades. Next time you hear a green group complain that America's farm policies and water resources policies are degrading America's natural treasures - the Gulf of Mexico, the Chesapeake Bay, the Colorado River, the Everglades - ask whether that group was on the side of reform, or whether it sold out their larger cause for a few projects it could brag about to donors...
...lake in Western Victoria, Bob McClelland is harvesting wheat - and grateful to be doing it. Thanks to a little rain and a pipeline from the Murray River, McClelland's farm is surviving the six-year drought that's parched much of southeast Australia. He isn't sure if it's just one of the region's periodic dry spells or if, as some scientists say, it's been worsened by global warming. But "I'm a bit of a believer in climate change," he says. "All those Arctic glaciers melting - there must be something happening...