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...domestic water quality on a scale from grade I through V, with grade V being the most polluted (unsuitable for even agricultural or industrial purposes). According to the Water Environment Partnership in Asia, 61.9 percent of water is Grade IV or worse in China’s seven major river basins, with 38.1 percent of water hitting Grade V or Grade...
...solved, it created more. The construction of the dam led to over a million people being forced to relocate as well as the destruction of numerous ecosystems and cultural relics. (I might have boated along the Yangtze myself except that there was no longer anything to see along the river banks after the dam was built.) The daily operation of the dam has also generated enormous amounts of greenhouse gases, and not to mention the dam poses significant sedimentation risks in addition to being vulnerable to tectonic and seismic activity. The lessons that can be learned from the Three Gorges...
...Located in East London's gritty Docklands region on the banks of the River Thames, the white, 80,000-square-meter, tent-like structure - designed by famed architect Richard Rogers - is one of the few manmade objects visible from space. Opening to great fanfare on Dec. 31, 1999, on the cusp of the new millennium with Queen Elizabeth II and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair in attendance, the Dome was initially considered a failure. Sure, it lured 6.5 million visitors to its themed Millennium Experience attractions during its year-long run - many more than any other U.K. attraction...
...victims. “The officer who came, she said she would give it to the detective who would then possibly open up an investigation,” said Kevin C. Porter ’10 of Lowell House, one of three students whose computer was stolen from a river house dorm room in the past several days. Harvard police spokesman Steven G. Catalano would not comment on the specific incidents but wrote in an e-mailed statement that an average of about 40 laptops are stolen annually. He added that four had been taken from dorm rooms since...
...long-term forecast isn't any better. Few scientists expect dry areas like the Southwest to do anything but grow dryer still. The past several years have been among the dryest on record in the West, leaving the Colorado River - which supplies water to 30 million people - at its lowest level in 85 years of measurements. If the mountain snowpack that stores much of the water used by the West were to melt because of higher temperatures, all the reservoirs in the world might not be enough to keep the region wet. Even if the effects of climate change turn...