Cadillac Desert

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• In that year --1902-- the United States government launched its own irrigation program, based on Mormon experience, guided by Mormon laws, run largely by Mormons. (Bureau of Reclamation) Only one desert civilization, out of dozens that grew up in antiquity, has survived uninterrupted into modern times. And Egypt's approach to irrigation was fundamentally different from all the rest. (查看原文)

  mai 2018-07-16 23:13:19

• ... despite heroic efforts and many billions of dollars, all we have manged to do in the arid West is turn a Missouri-sized section green --and that conversion has been wrought mainly with nonrenewable groudwater. But a goal of many westerners and their federal archangels, the Burreau of Reclamation and Corps of Engineers, has long been to double, triple, quadruple the amount of desert that has been civilized and farmed, and now these same people say that the future of a hungry world depends on it, even if it means importing water from as far away as Alaska. What they seem not to understand is how difficult it will be to just to hang on to the beachhead they have made. Such a surfeit of ambition stems, of course, from the remarkable record of success we have had in reclaiming the American ... (查看原文)

  mai 2018-07-17 12:15:21

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