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Tragedy Writ In Water. Erosion: America's Blight
Cort, David | February 11, 1956 issue

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The article discusses real causes of blows to the U.S. nation, the physical ones being because of water. Flash floods in New England and California, Southern droughts, sinking water tables, virtual civil war in the Southwest over water rights, vast erosion in the Mississippi and Colorado basins. Reasons for little effectiveness in the situation is because of people's indifference towards water's preciousness. More disastrous mishandling of water lies in the ruin of watersheds from which the rains drain into the rivers. The fight for water has turned state against state

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WATER & civilization; DROUGHTS; FLOODS; NATURAL resources; U.S. states; UNITED States
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