`CADILLAC DESERT' CONTINUES WITH LOOK AT COLORADO RIVER : ``CADILLAC DESERT,'' A FOUR-PART DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE CALIFORNIA WATER WARS, CONTINUES TONIGHT ON KCET (CHANNEL 28) AT 9 P.M. HERE'S A PREVIEW: EPISODE TWO ``AN AMERICAN NILE'' RUNNING TIME: ONE HOUR.Synopsis: This episode questions whether using the Colorado River to quench quench, v to cool a hot object rapidly by plunging it into water or oil. quench to put out, extinguish, or suppress; to cool (as hot metal) by immersing in water. the thirst of the American Southwest was right or wrong. The pros and cons pros and cons Noun, pl the advantages and disadvantages of a situation [Latin pro for + con(tra) against] of dams also are analyzed. ``No river,'' the documentary says, ``has been asked to do so much - for so many - with so little.'' Look who's talking: Patricia Mulroy (general manager of the Las Vegas Valley Water District The Las Vegas Valley Water District (LVVWD) is a not-for-profit water supply agency that has been providing water to the Las Vegas Valley since 1954. The district helped build the area's water delivery system and now provides water to more than one million people in Southern Nevada. ); former U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater; Floyd Dominy (Commissioner of Reclamation 1959 to 1969). Quotable quot·a·ble adj. Suitable for or worthy of quoting: a quotable slogan; a quotable pundit. quot : Dominy: ``I was the Messiah. I was the evangelist that went out and argued persuasively to develop our rivers and water supplies for the benefit of people. I don't apologize for that.'' |
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