Katrina is not the first massive storm to test the Lake Pontchartrain Basin levees.

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Professor David Harper, Member of the IHP National Committee, presented his long-standing IHP Ecohydrology work on Lake Naivasha basin in Kenya.

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"You need to think that you're going out to seek real solitude, " advised Jacob Quinn, Trails Coordinator for the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, "and think of everything that comes with it".

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By October, it had zoomed past Cleveland more than 100 miles to the east and penetrated the lake's central basin, where decomposed algae had already created an oxygen-deprived "dead zone" lethal to most fish and other aquatic organisms.

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The company owns a 50 per cent interest in the Cigar Lake mine in the Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan.

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Indeed, there's geologic evidence from the rover and from NASA's Mars orbiters that there may once have been a large lake and streams within the basin that Curiosity is driving around in now.

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At the Hotel Belvedere in Bellagio my room had high ceilings, a big comforter, marble basin and a huge private deck with a view of the lake.

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The waterway widens suddenly -- it is a turning basin, carved in the 1850s to accommodate the lumber barges stacked with wood that was shipped across Lake Michigan from the forests of Wisconsin and Michigan.

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