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Water in a Crystal Ball
Luten, D. B. | July 31, 1967 issue

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The article focuses on the need for natural resource management. During the decades of increasing rainfall, people use more and more water and tacking policy for retrenchment during the dry decades, they take it out on some other part of the environment. The proposal North American Water and Power Alliance describes the magnitude and growth rate of the demand for water, notes the general deficiency of supplies in the arid Southwest and the increasing inadequacy of even the abundant sources in the humid North-east and the Mississippi Valley.

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WATER conservation; WATER-supply; CONSERVATION of natural resources; ENVIRONMENTAL protection; MISSISSIPPI River Valley; UNITED States
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