Water over the dam:

Monday, August 20, 2007

BY VAL SIGSTEDT

The Delaware River Basin Commission was created to supply New York City with 50 percent of its water. Always be fore, the New York City dams were the elephant in the Delaware River Basin's living room. But global warming is not simply a water theory anymore.

For 50 percent of its municipal water, New York City chose to take a river that receives such a low average amount of precipitation that it needed to dam almost every inch of its tiny watershed just to get enough water. The dam's capacity is enormous, "enough to last about a year and a half, even without one single drop more rain or snow-melt flowing into them," according to The Intelligencer (May 7).

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