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Map of the NAWAPA project (right), as compared with the GRAND, a continental water management scheme of similar scale. The North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWPA or NAWAPA; also referred to as NAWAPTA after the proposed governing body, the North American Water and Power Treaty Authority) was a proposed continental water management scheme conceived in the 1950s by the US Army Corps of ...
"Great Plains", or Western Plains, is also the ecoregion of the Great Plains or the western portion of the Great Plains. The Great Plains lie across both the Central United States and Western Canada, encompassing: Most or all of the U.S. states of Kansas, Nebraska, and North and South Dakota;
The Boundary Waters is the largest wilderness area east of the Rocky Mountains. It spans more than 1 million acres along the U.S.-Canada border and is filled with forests, glacial lakes and streams.
The Pacific Basin is bounded by the Continental divide to the east and Pacific Ocean to the west; the basin excludes the endorheic Great Basin in the west. The Great Basin has a closed loop boundary encompassing substantially all of Nevada, the western half of Utah and parts of Oregon, California, Idaho, and Wyoming.
Boundary Waters advocacy groups say they are concerned that a proposed platform for the next Republican president would have devastating environmental impacts by allowing mining in a protected ...
Two great continental watersheds drained into it from east and west, diluting its waters and bringing resources in eroded silt that formed shifting delta systems along its low-lying coasts. There was little sedimentation on the eastern shores of the seaway; the western boundary, however, consisted of a thick clastic wedge eroded eastward from ...
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The Continental Divide in North America in red and other drainage divides in North America The Continental Divide in Central America and South America. The Continental Divide of the Americas (also known as the Great Divide, the Western Divide or simply the Continental Divide; Spanish: Divisoria continental de las Américas, Gran Divisoria) is the principal, and largely mountainous ...