Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WATER is the most spectacular possession of this planet and an essential ingredient of all living things. It's amazingly that water management has taken this long to find its way into the presidential campaign...
Neither candidate, however, has stepped forward with a water policy to address this country's problems. Vice President George Bush has had a field day maligning Boston Harbor; but this is more a media ploy than a strong commitment to preserve the existence and qualityir of water resources. Gov. Michael S. Dukakis has promised to put a Secretary of the Environment in his cabinet, but water issues have certainly not been among his priorities...
...recent water policy paper from the Kennedy School of Government has highlighted the essence of the problem. Our efforts have been stalled under a fragmented and directionless Reagan administration while our water difficulties have grown. The paper was researched and mainly written prior to this summer's devastating drought. However, the dry spell makes the report's message--the need for strong leadership in federal water policy--all the more timely...
While many issues can and should be left to the states, water problems do not respect state boundaries. The federal government has a vital role to play as arbitrator, coordinator, and as the articulator of a broad national water policy that local governments can use as a guideline for the hard water choices of the next decade...
...example, water shortages may be particularly serious in the agricultural areas of the Great Plains if the dry weather continues, as many climatologists suspect. Traditionally dry--the whole area was once known as the Great American Desert--it has become enormously productive through irrigation and crop improvement. But a good deal of the water bodies there are now polluted by fertilizer nitrates and pesticides. Should the drop in the water table continue, safe drinking water may become increasingly scarce...