Water Resources: Hydraulics and Hydrology
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I guess that's occurring more frequently now again, too. Beyond the drug situation,
it's also political.
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Oh, yes.
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I think leftists guerrillas.
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It's gotten terrible.
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D i d you work in any other South American countries?
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No. I did a job in Mexico. I reviewed a job in Mexico once, but I didn't even go
down to Mexico. I think it was mostly reviewing a design and someone else had
done on a dam in Mexico. The different projects are listed in the resume I gave
you.
One of these, one job in South America in Colombia there, we went out by jeep to
a camp they had, and then from then on, we went on horseback. They wanted to
know whether I was a rider. Well, I had ridden horses, but not very much. We
went on horseback from the camp to the dam site. During the night, someone took
off with some of the horses. I don't know whether they stole them or just what
happened. So when we went to the dam site, some of the local help didn't have
horses.
I remember when we came back from the dam site, Iguess he was one of the natives
there that was taking care of the horses, he hung onto the tail of my horse and the
other people were sort of ahead of us. They didn't slow down a bit so we were
going fairly fast. That chap hung onto the tail of that horse, and he was really flying
through the air to get back to the camp.
One of the nice jobs, it was one of the first ones I got after I retired, I was at an
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics meeting in Helsinki. I got a note
there asking if I would stop in London on the way home, which I did. My wife was
with me. She came on home, and I got off in London. This was for a British f irm
that had the World Bank contract on the Roseires Dam out on the Blue Nile in the
Sudan. It's been built, too. They raise a lot of cotton there and they need lots of
water--this was on the Blue Nile just shortly after it comes out of Ethiopia. They
set up an international panel on flood discharges consisting of A. Bleasdale, a
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