Pushing water uphill
Kaslo, British Columbia
Barney Gilmore
An Auckland visitor to our home here in the forests of British Columbia has presented me with a copy of your May issue of Forest & Bird, as a house gift. I am reading it with interest and with admiration for both its professionalism and quality. Iam puzzled, however, by an assertion on your Worldwatch section, which seems to suggest that in the northern hemisphere water flows uphill. I refer to the account concerning US Interior Secretary Babbitt "opening the gates on the 220-metre-tall Hoover dam on the
Colorado River, sending water streaming into the Grand Canyon..." The Hoover Dam holds back the waters of Lake Mead, which is, in turn, the terminus of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. Water leaving Hoover Dam would not flow up into the Grand Canyon, even under instructions from a US Interior Secretary. Perhaps Mr Babbitt was up at the Glen Canyon Dam when he opened the gates?
Forest & Bird does not wish to be party to breaking the law of gravity, and is happy to stand corrected. Water from the Glen Canyon dam flooded the Grand Canyon.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 281, 1 August 1996, Page 3
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