Military boon

Article Abstract:

A survey of defense contracts awarded to firms in San Antonio and its surrounding counties for the 1998 to 2003 period and to companies in other big metropolitan areas in Texas such as Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and Austin was carried out in 2005. The data revealed that the area saw a defense contracting boom locally that provided everything from oil and food to aircraft parts and weapons research.

Guided Missiles, Space Vehicles, Parts, Surveys, Defense industry, Defence industry, Defense contracts, Government contract, Defence contracts

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Levee neglect

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A levee is a decidedly low-tech mound of earth originally piled up by farmers hoping to keep their fields dry and about 1,600 miles of levee now protect Sacramento and other fast growing communities in the Central Valley. A report was prepared by the California Department of Water Resources, documenting how levees, bypasses and other flood-control structures were becoming dangerously neglected.

Administration of Air and Water Resource and Solid Waste Management Programs, Flood Control & Dams, Methods, Usage, Flood control, Levees

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Stories of water

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A novelist discusses the impact of water in life of both human and animals. The various stories about the water one of which include Herman Melville's story of the white whale where the ship was struck by a whale and sank is presented.

Analysis, Water, Works, Melville, Herman

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