Word: yenisei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RIVER DIVERSIONS. The Australians are diverting much of a river for irrigation; water from the Snowy River, which empties into the Tasman Sea, is being rerouted to flow through the Snowy Mountains into farmland watering systems. The Soviets are working on a similar project involving the Ob and the Yenisei, which flow north out of Siberia to the Kara Sea. By diverting part of these waters southward, the Soviets will feed them into an irrigation system that could keep marginal wheatlands productive...
...South Africa. Half a dozen great rivers, all flowing north into the Arctic Ocean, may one day provide hydroelectric power across the Bering Strait for Canada and the U.S. It is not so wild a dream. Already the Russians have built the world's largest dams on the Yenisei and Angara rivers at Krasnoyarsk and Bratsk, and a third one is going up at Ust-Ilimsk (see map page 39). The riches of Siberia may well figure largely in China's border dispute with the Soviet Union. Other governments, including the U.S. and Japan, are also eying Siberia...
...ANGARA VALLEY, north of the old caravan-crossroads city of Irkutsk, is being opened up through dams on the Angara and Yenisei rivers. Nearby will be smelters, wood industries and chemical factories. The Russians' pride is the $1 billion Bratsk Dam, which was completed in 1964 after ten years of hardship and which contains as much masonry as the Great Pyramid of Cheops. "That was our October," says one veteran, using the image of the Russian Revolution to describe the days when construction workers lived in tents at temperatures of 60° below zero. Today the effort is being...