" Women like naturalist Ella Higginson fired back, charging that men were so obsessed with profit that they wanted to "tear down our forests, rip open our mountain sides, blow out our stumps with giant powder, (and) dam up our water ways.

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If it is too high, the water spills over even when the dam is up.

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In past years, the general water level of the dam system had gone up a little bit, but this year it was really scarce.

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In two weeks' time, murky brown water will have backed up behind the dam to a height of 135 metres (440 feet) above sea-level.

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