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If the economic blockade against Iraq does not bite quickly enough, and Bush decides he would like to raise the ante without launching an attack, he has an intriguing option: cut off the water. Iraq's major rivers wash down from Turkey and Syria, two nations that are part of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Water Weapon | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

Triceratopses can be had cheap hereabouts. Horner picks his way through the litter ("Rib city," he remarks, dismissively) with an eye for the shape of the land as it was in the Cretaceous, when rivers from the Rockies flowed through eastern Montana into a vast central seaway. At one point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACK HORNER; Head Man In the Boneyard | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

Despite the global breadth of the water crisis, the situation is not completely hopeless. In industrial nations the revitalized environmental movement has spawned a fresh offensive against pollution. Jan Dogterom, who runs a consulting firm in the Netherlands, represents a new breed of detective hired by governments to track down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Last Drops | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

New supplies could take some pressure off rivers and lakes and would be a temporary godsend to millions of people. But if societies returned to business as usual, this bounty would only postpone the day of reckoning for humans and all other species. Humanity has long deluded itself into thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Last Drops | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

For all its natural wealth, the U.S. has its share of water woes. Nearly half of its rivers, lakes and streams are damaged or threatened by pollution, according to an Environmental Protection Agency survey. Occasional water shortages have struck all over the country, even in the rain-rich Northeast.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The U.S.: No Water to Waste | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

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