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...eastern slopes of the Colorado Rockies, the winter's near-record drought meant dry riverbeds and a snowpack that in some areas was less than a fifth of the usual level. In a region where more than three-quarters of the fresh water normally comes from the spring runoff of the snowpack, the water-supply outlook for the summer months is ominous. April brought none of the hoped-for relief; it marked the seventh straight month with below-normal precipitation over much of the Far West...
...proposal for direct voting that has the most support was devised by Indiana Senator Birch Bayh. He suggests that if no candidate received more than 40% of the popular vote, a runoff be held between the two top vote getters...
Opponents of the Garrison say that in order to bring water to its 250,000 acres, the project would disrupt 220,000 acres now being farmed. Runoff water from the irrigated areas would leach salty chemicals from the soil and carry them into the Souris and Red rivers. Richard Madson, a local representative of the Audubon Society, calls the dispute over the Garrison "a classic test of whether the bureaucracy can be slowed down once it's moving...
...water crisis. The usual snowpack for this season at the 6,000-foot level on Mount Hood is 143 inches; after a heavy snow last week it had risen to only 21 inches. It is the snowpack that replenishes streams, reservoirs and irrigation ditches, and with only a modest runoff in sight, Oregon officials expect as much as a $2 billion economic loss by fall. The Pacific Northwest's forests are so dry and flammable that Oregon Governor Robert Straub has hired 400 unemployed workers to train as fire fighters and is urging the creation of a four-state...
...idea sounded beguiling. In a letter to President Carter, California's Representative John Burton wondered whether his drought-stricken state could import snow or runoff water-perhaps by pipeline or railroad-from inundated Eastern areas like Buffalo. But empty pipelines are not available, and state officials, after some reckoning on their calculators, found that 182 million railroad carloads of water or snow would be required to make up for California's water shortage alone. Estimated cost of such an operation: $437 billion...