For each of the following sentences, choose the correct coordinating conjunction to fill in the blank.
For help with this exercise, see chapter 29 of Real Essays 5e.
Example
Americans have built dams and rerouted rivers,___they have made even the driest parts of the West inhabitable.
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The Southwest is naturally arid and rocky,___we have tried to make it lush and green like the East.
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The Southwest has a very hot and dry climate,___water used for irrigation purposes evaporates and is lost almost as quickly as it is sprayed out of hoses.
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This means that water is being taken out of streams and rivers without being put back in,___the result of such irrigation can be disastrous to natural bodies of water.
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Damming waterways has effects in the Northwest as well,___rivers as far north as Washington State are also artificially rerouted.
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When rivers are dammed, the salmon that live in them cannot survive,___can the bears that depend on the salmon for food.
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Indian tribes with national rights to the salmon also lose out,___the fish that they have depended on for hundreds of years are now becoming extinct.
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Sport fishermen, environmental groups, and many Indian tribes have asked the government to reconsider its policies about damming waterways,___the groups in favor of reallocating rivers and streams have often proved to be more powerful.
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We must take better care of our natural waterways,___we will permanently lose them and the wildlife dependent on them.
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The late author Wallace Stegner wrote many essays about this subject,___in one of them he said, “You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale.”
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