Word: reservoir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hotels at which the conventiongoers had stayed revealed no outbreak of the mysterious illness among employees who had come in contact with the Legionnaires. The investigators could find no evidence that any of the victims had been exposed to pigs, which have been implicated as the animal reservoir for the swine-flu virus. Nor could the disease detectives explain another apparent contradiction: why some people developed the disease, while others, who ate the same meals, drank the same drinks or shared their rooms during the convention, did not. "This is an amazing disease," said Dr. Robert Gens, director of Pennsylvania...
...systems powered by horses, paddle wheels or even windmills, but they have usually proved inadequate. Boston and Philadelphia still depend on a random collection of pumps and wells, and only the small Moravian settlement of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, can boast an efficient system, which pumps spring water to a hilltop reservoir and then uses gravity to pipe it down through the town...
...city's Common Council to approve his plan for a water system. The council issued notes for ?2,600 to get the project started. Almost half went to buy nearly two acres of high land on Great George Street, where Colles decided to build a roofed wooden reservoir of 10 by 60 by 140 feet holding 628,000 gallons. The rest was invested in the key part of Colics' scheme: a steam engine. Although there are a number of these devices in Europe, only one was ever shipped to America, to pump out a copper mine...
...above the surface of the rising water. There the caged animals were placed in the shade and fed bananas. Then, late in the afternoon, Walsh and his helpers loaded the cages into boats and cruised up one of the more than 30 rivers that feed into the Bayano Dam reservoir. Far upstream in what he called an "ecologically secure area," he released them, taking care, for example, to place a two-toed sloth safely on a low-hanging branch of a tree...
Walsh has devoted most of his adult life to saving and protecting animals. He took part in "Operation Gwamba," which in 1964 rescued some 10,000 animals from the reservoir area of a new dam in Surinam, worked to curtail the slaughter of baby seals in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, set up feeding programs for starving huskies near the Arctic Circle and aided animals that survived an earthquake in Peru, floods in Italy and a hurricane in Honduras. But Noah II, which is scheduled to last until Christmastime, is in financial trouble. Letters to nearly a thousand...