New Zealand needed to surpass the highest winning total made at the Basin Reserve - 277 by Pakistan in 2003 - and the highest of all time, the 418 achieved by West Indies against Australia in 2003 in Antigua.

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New discoveries are being made annually in that basin.

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The Calais basin is one of three mining sites that made the list this year.

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These discoveries, as well as the billions of barrels of oil in the Williston Basin of the Dakotas and Montana, have made energy executives optimistic about the possibilities.

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The agreement calls for the water system to be treated as a single complex ecosystem made up of countless tributaries, underground aquifers and smaller lakes all held in the Great Lakes basin.

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In a sweeping basin christened Flaming Cliffs by Andrews for its spectacular orange sandstone formations, paleontologist George Olsen made the first recorded discovery of fossilized dinosaur eggs.

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Careful consideration must be made now of the potential impacts of this, and other dams being considered for the 3-S River Basin, to avoid serious losses and to form a positive solution for the people of the lower Mekong, their energy needs and the environment on which they depend.

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