Thursday, July 19, 2012

United States: Two Years After Pact to Restore River, No Changes

New York Times: Almost since the Bureau of Reclamation first began plumbing the Klamath River in 1906, creating a vast and fertile farming region out of arid southeastern Oregon and northeastern California, people have fought over what the river provides: water for farming, water to preserve one of the West Coast's largest salmon runs and a source of hydroelectric power. Then, suddenly, a truce was announced. In February 2010, after five years of confidential negotiation, an unlikely alliance of American Indian...

URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/us/two-years-after-pact-to-restore-river-no-changes.html
Enclosure: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/07/19/us/DAM/DAM-articleLarge.jpg

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