Puerto Rico faces drought and reservoir dredging issues while United's CEO pushes for flag carrier status and WWF files a Danube dredging complaint.
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A massive cargo ship sails through a dredged canal as workers in the foreground operate heavy machinery, with a reservoir in the background and a cityscape under a cloudy sky, the light reflecting off the water.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A massive cargo ship sails through a dredged canal as workers in the foreground operate heavy machinery, with a reservoir in the background and a cityscape under a cloudy sky, the light reflecting off the water. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
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Puerto Rico must get Army Corps permits before Carraízo reservoir dredging begins
The Drought Committee confirmed the permit requirement as the island's service-interruption program continues under ongoing drought conditions.
By Nalani Reyes · 5wPuerto Rico's government must obtain permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers before workers can begin dry dredging operations at the Carraízo reservoir, the Drought Committee announced. The requirement applies to the dry shoreline dredging of the reservoir's exposed basins - a project aimed at increasing usable capacity at Carraízo during the island's ongoing drought, which has put the reservoir into a service-interruption program.
House Speaker Carlos Méndez Nuñez had urged the Drought Committee to evaluate the feasibility of the dry shoreline dredging operation in the reservoir's exposed basins. The Corps made clear through Puerto Rican government officials that the permits are required before any work begins.
The read here is that the permit requirement inserts a federal checkpoint into what the island's government had framed as a drought-emergency measure - and the timeline for dredging remains open. Engineer Carlos Pesquero did not provide a new start date for the dredging, according to Periódico La Perla, even as earlier public statements had suggested no permit would be required.}
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