Hydro dynamics: forget oil. Sharing freshwater equitably poses political conundrums as explosive and far-reaching as global climate change. - Water from
Water from Heaven: The Story of Water from the Big Bang to the Rise of Civilization, and Beyond by Robert Columbia University Press, 2003; $27.95 Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politi(keep on reading)
A flood of concern in Roanoke: after an urban ecosystem analysis, officials agree increasing tree cover is the best way to alleviate long-standing problems
Roanoke, Virginia, sits at the head-waters of three major water systems: the New River on one side of the watershed flows into the Mississippi River, ...(keep on reading)
The chief inspector of prisons fears that squalid conditions and overcrowding breach the human rights of some inmates - Interview: Anne Owers
Prisons are full. Last week's record was 72,000, with the overspill housed in police cells, at the Dorchester bed-and-breakfast rate of [pounds sterling]300 ...(keep on reading)
Tales of the flood
Unguarded Gates: A History of America's Immigration Crisis, by Otis L. Graham Jr. (Rowman & Littlefield, 264 pp., $26.95) RADICALS loose in America.(keep on reading)
After The Flood - Statistical Data Included
DISASTERS | The waters have receded in Grand Forks, But the FINANCIAL SCARS run deep. AT 3 A.M. on a chilly April morning, warning sirens sounded, ...(keep on reading)
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