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The Watering of California's Central Valley
The agricultural landscape of California was based on a complex system of aqueducts that created the illusion of “normal” climatic variation.
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Taconite Mining in Silver Bay: A Tale of Extraction and Accumulation
The Reserve Mining Company discharged taconite tailings directly into Lake Superior for 25 years, creating a massive tailings delta and polluting the waters of the lake. When the EPA took Reserve to court in 1973, the town of Silver Bay was divided between a struggle for economic well-being and public health.
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The Serre-Ponçon Dam and the Durance River: The Founding Act towards the most Regulated French Waterway
The construction of the Serre-Ponçon dam in 1955 was the first step in the development of dams in the Durance River, the most regulated waterway in France
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An Endless Sediment Story: The First Five Decades of the Canal de Marseille
The Canal de Marseille has allowed an improvement in the water supply in the city of Marseille, but also induced environmental issues in its first decades due to strong suspended sediment fluxes.
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Brewing, Industrialization, and London Water Supplies
Making more beer for eighteenth-century London’s growing population increased the need for clean water. Efforts to guarantee supplies to the brewers had an effect on both urban and rural landscapes.
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The Fen River in Taiyuan, China: Ecology, Revitalization, and Urban Culture
This case study reflects China’s environmental governance as a constantly evolving structure within the “environment-politics-society” nexus.
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Land Subsidence and the Reservoirs of the Washburn Valley
Water management can have profound effects upon the landscape.
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Naturalizing Trout? Fish Farming in German Southwest Africa
Efforts to naturalize trout in German Southwest Africa capture German ambitions within its first and only settler colony.
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The Niagara Telecolorimeter
The creation of the Niagara Telecolorimeter helped engineers physically remake Niagara Falls in the mid-twentieth century.
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The Lake That Became a Bus Terminus
This article investigates the transformation of Bangalore’s Dharmambudhi lake into the central bus terminus.