U.S. opens 17th bay to divert water from Mississippi
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![Water from the inflated Mississippi River gushed through a floodgate on Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades and headed toward thousands of homes and farmland in Louisiana's French-speaking countryside. [Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20110519/0014222d98500f3ebc711f.jpg "Water from the inflated Mississippi River gushed through a floodgate on Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades and headed toward thousands of homes and farmland in Louisiana's French-speaking countryside. [Xinhua]")
Water from the inflated Mississippi River gushed through a floodgate on Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades and headed toward thousands of homes and farmland in Louisiana's French-speaking countryside. [Xinhua]
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