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... Lakes was all but wiped out . The catch of lake trout from Michigan and Huron dropped from 11 million pounds a year to a few hundred pounds . Boats rotted on the beach , nets flapped untended in the breeze . Lakeside villages were ...
... Lakes was all but wiped out . The catch of lake trout from Michigan and Huron dropped from 11 million pounds a year to a few hundred pounds . Boats rotted on the beach , nets flapped untended in the breeze . Lakeside villages were ...
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... Lake Powell again ? The Marble Gorge and Bridge Canyon reservoirs would hoard another 4,073,000 acre - feet of water . Together with Lake Powell , this totaled a year's average flow of the Colorado . There was still another part to this ...
... Lake Powell again ? The Marble Gorge and Bridge Canyon reservoirs would hoard another 4,073,000 acre - feet of water . Together with Lake Powell , this totaled a year's average flow of the Colorado . There was still another part to this ...
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... Lake Baikal , 293 Lake Erie , 19 , 51 , 57 , 229 Lake George , 229 Lake Havasu , 31-33 Lake Huron , 20 Lake Kremasta , 35 Lake Mead , 30-31 , 33-35 Lake Michigan , 20-21 DDT in , 219 , 224 Lake Mojave , 31 , 33 Lake Okeechobee , 67-78 , 86- ...
... Lake Baikal , 293 Lake Erie , 19 , 51 , 57 , 229 Lake George , 229 Lake Havasu , 31-33 Lake Huron , 20 Lake Kremasta , 35 Lake Mead , 30-31 , 33-35 Lake Michigan , 20-21 DDT in , 219 , 224 Lake Mojave , 31 , 33 Lake Okeechobee , 67-78 , 86- ...
Contents
An Introduction | 9 |
Rivers Dams and Floods | 27 |
Water Pollution and the Great Water Shortage | 49 |
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