Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great temptation simply to drift, "lower our voices" settle for what we have, we are; say it is too late for change, we lack the resources, all we can do is keep our head above the wave, treading water. History has made us, we cannot remake ourselves...
...that they would have to set their sights a little lower. He spoke of "lowered goals as well as thermostats," accommodation with the Soviets and a lessened role worldwide. He knew the myth was false and gave us a program that sought only to keep our heads above water...
...Cambridge state representative has sponsored legislation to reduce the contamination of local reservoir water, aides said yesterday...
...years the source of that water seemed inexhaustible. Much of it comes + from 165-sq.-mi., dam-created Gatun Lake, through which the ships pass on their route across the isthmus. Most of the remainder is tapped from nearby Madden Lake, formed in 1935 (also by damming) to provide an additional reservoir of water for the dry season. But now a 375-page report by Stanley Heckadon Moreno, an environmentalist at Panama's Ministry of Planning, has raised a startling worry about the canal's future: it may be running short of water...
...worsened by another consequence of deforestation. According to Donald Windsor of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the average annual rainfall in central Panama has decreased by as much as 10% since the turn of the century. "Because of deforestation," he says, "there is less evapotranspiration." And because less water rises into the air in vapor form, less returns in the form of rainfall...