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| The contest for water in the West is only slightly more bitter than the fight for power. This struggle is not for the abstract "power" that postmodernists are given to discussing, it is instead very real: the stuff of which air conditioning, city lights, manufacturing jobs, and other quite genuine quantities are made. The turbines at Glen Canyon, a vast dam that some dissenters argue was built in large part to satiate the needs of Arizona and Southern California for cheap electrical power and ongoing water, are a suitable representation of this search for sustainable and clean energy. That the environmental costs of building the dam were great is one problem, that the environmental effects of large cities are greater still is also undeniable.
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