Lithotripsy is the use of high-energy shock waves to fragment and disintegrate kidney stones. The shock wave, created by using a high-voltage spark or an electromagnetic impulse outside of the body, is focused on the stone. The shock wave shatters the stone, allowing the fragments to pass through the urinary system.
The reservoir would partially inundate both Millerton and Kerckhoff reservoirs. Temperance Flat Dam is a proposed dam project on the San Joaquin River west of Auberry, California. The dam's main purpose would be to supplement storage capacity in the upper San Joaquin River basin.
With Dying Breath The infamous lime green gas chamber at San Quentin, where all of California's death sentences are carried out. Today the room is used for lethal injections; California abolished execution by poison gas in 1995. Image courtesy of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.