Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hands all round, they resorted to Denver's State Office Building, assumed their poker faces and resumed their long, long discussion of a problem vital to all, a problem in water, the main stream of water in all the 792,509 sq. mi. governed by them, the Colorado River...
...Governors of Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico and their host, the Governor of Colorado, had little left to settle. Their states are in the upper basin of the Colorado River, "upper" meaning "up-stream," for the Colorado flows roughly southwest. Prior negotiations at Santa Fe, N. M., in 1922, had established the principle that, when the Colorado's torrent is entirely turned to human use, 50% of its volume will go to the upper basin states, 50% to the lower basin states. The four upper basin states then agreed on proportional allotments of their 50% among themselves. The lower basin...
Nevada, having a very small frontage on the river, agreed to be content with 300,000 acre-feet or 2% of the Colorado's water per annum. But for five years Arizona and California have been deadlocked over how they shall share the remaining...
...Isabel, flagship of Rear Admiral Henry Hughes Hough, churned the waters of the Yangtze River last week. Passing between Nanking and Pukow, the gunboat ran into the Chinese war. Bullets spat from both sides of the river, whistling across the decks, flattening themselves against the armor...
There are three established systems connecting the eastern seaboard to the Mississippi River and anastomosing over the coal and industrial regions between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes. Those systems are the Pennsylvania, the New York Central and the Baltimore & Ohio...