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... reached a volume sufficient to consume , in dry weather , all the oxygen in all the 22 river systems in the United States . Which can be interpreted in no other terms than the death of our waterways . This situation has already been ...
... reached a volume sufficient to consume , in dry weather , all the oxygen in all the 22 river systems in the United States . Which can be interpreted in no other terms than the death of our waterways . This situation has already been ...
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... reached during a two- year period while the site was being selected will be favorably re- flected in studies which are being conducted to evaluate the site and its potential commercial use . " Said potential was given as 50,000,000 ...
... reached during a two- year period while the site was being selected will be favorably re- flected in studies which are being conducted to evaluate the site and its potential commercial use . " Said potential was given as 50,000,000 ...
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... reached Alaska during this Pleistocene period found animals now long vanished - the Titanotylopus , a giant camel ; Er- emotherium , a huge ground sloth ; the woolly mammoth ; the big- horned bison , and various forms of tapir , horse ...
... reached Alaska during this Pleistocene period found animals now long vanished - the Titanotylopus , a giant camel ; Er- emotherium , a huge ground sloth ; the woolly mammoth ; the big- horned bison , and various forms of tapir , horse ...
Contents
An Introduction | 9 |
Rivers Dams and Floods | 27 |
Water Pollution and the Great Water Shortage | 49 |
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