Word: antarctica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saudi Arabia's King Khalid, the conference demonstrated that there is no shortage of ideas for using icebergs to slake the world's growing thirst. Prince Faisal's own company, Iceberg Transport International, is considering a plan to find a 100 million-ton iceberg off Antarctica,* wrap it in sailcloth and plastic to slow its melting, and then use powerful tugboats to tow it to the Arabian peninsula, where it would supply enormous quantities of drinking water. The journey would take about eight months and the project would cost around $100 million, according to estimates...
drive: ability foreign to people from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Antarctica. This part of the stroke is when the blade is in the water. The drive pulls the boat through the water as the oarsman pulls the blade through the water...
...standard tools of earth scientists around the world. Press was also one of the organizers of the International Geophysical Year (IGY), which began, in 1957, as a multidisciplined, worldwide scientific investigation of the earth and the space around it. IGY eventually grew into an extended exploration of Antarctica, where a newly discovered mountain was named Mount Press in honor of the scientist...
Some countries are trying novel approaches to meet their water needs. Saudi Arabia has contracted with a French firm to study the feasibility of towing an iceberg from Antarctica to a Red Sea port, where it could be melted for its fresh water. Elsewhere, more conventional methods are being used to increase the supply of usable water. Among them...
Perhaps the most intriguing scheme came from an imaginative scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. After an earlier drought in the 1950s, John Isaacs proposed towing giant, flat-topped icebergs from Antarctica (those from the Arctic would not be big enough) to the California coast; as they melted, fresh water could be siphoned out of the lakes that would form on top of them. The idea has impressed at least one country: petroleum-rich, water-poor Saudi Arabia. A French engineering firm hired by the Saudis is studying whether or not the plan is practical. Towed by six tugs...