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...currently planned; Congress, mindful of criticism of pork-barrel projects, has not authorized a major new water program since 1976. Yet Lamm's own state is likely to need more water by the end of the century. Congress has funded parts of an ongoing $1.2 billion reclamation project in Utah that would involve the Colorado's water. Since the river's harvest is fixed, and already overal-located, experts warn that the only way to accommodate these and other projects is through planning and austerity. In dry days to come, Arizona's new canals may prove to be the Colorado...
Draconian measures may also be in store for an area reaching well beyond Arizona. Six other states (Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada and California) fall inside the Colorado River basin. Under an agreement reached in 1922, each state is entitled to a portion of the river's waters. Arizona's share was set at 2.8 million acre-feet, roughly one-fifth of the Colorado's flow. Because it lacked transporting capacity, however, the state has used less than half of its legal entitlement, allowing California to take much of the remainder. The CAP's new flow will thus...
MARK REESE Draper, Utah...
...Chicago under Enrico Fermi. At the age of 21, Agnew was one of 43 people to witness the world's first man-made nuclear chain reaction, in a squash court under the football field. A few years later he was testing yield-measuring devices at Wendover Air Base in Utah, where Colonel Paul Tibbets and the atom bomb crew were training in secret. What Agnew saw was much of the history of America's scientific and military progress toward the Hiroshima bombing. He also observed the close relationship that developed between science and the military after the Bomb was dropped...
...basic techniques by which this translation is accomplished were laid out in the late '60s and early '70s by two University of Utah professors, Ivan Sutherland and David Evans, in fulfillment of a contract for the U.S. Department of Defense. Their task: to build a flight simulator for pilot training that would show on a screen the same unfolding landscape the pilot would see from the air. To do this, the Utah scientists first had to program into the computer a precise mathematical model of every tree, house and mountain in the flight path. Then they instructed the machine...