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Nature 422, 4-5 (6 March 2003) | doi:10.1038/422004b
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Climate studies hold key to future of desalination plant
Rex Dalton
Palaeontologists and hydrologists are being called in to help the US government decide what to do with a disused, $400-million desalination plant on the banks of the Colorado River.The researchers will study tree rings and clam shells, among other things, in a bid to establish long-term historical climate patterns in the river basin.
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