"I'm not controlled by anybody, " he told the meeting, arguing that as mayor he would do far more to promote the town, putting river buses and more water sports on the river.
There's no magic in the Yangtse River any more than the Volga, Rhine or Hudson.
The river is more than a foot over the record set in the city in 1927.
We stole down some of the San Juan's narrowest veins, where the river felt more like a flooded forest and palm fronds hung low over their reflections.
Southern Metropolis Daily says officials must take action to clean up a polluted local river in Rui'an in Zhejiang province after entrepreneur Jin Zengmin offered 200, 000 yuan (32, 000 dollars) to any environment official willing to swim in the river for more than 20 minutes.
The usual 15-minute journey south of the River Thames took more than two hours because of the burst main at Hyde Park corner.
In the past decade big property developments have sprung up on both sides of the river, and more are on their way before the 2012 Olympic games.
An Environment Agency spokesman said it would provide a "very slight benefit" to those living by the river in Oxfordshire and Berkshire because the river would "drain slightly more" into the estuary.
The bigger Charles River gets, the more often it will become a target for animal-rights protesters.
This time, with a larger exhibition space along the Hudson River during the day, more dogs were allowed.
"Conditions on the river are even more treacherous than yesterday, " Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek said Friday.
He's not involved in this week's search efforts, but he's been diving in the Mississippi River for more than 30 years.
The Suwannee River surged more than 25 feet in a day, rising from 55 feet deep at White Springs, west of Jacksonville, on Monday to nearly 81 feet on Tuesday afternoon.
The PLA supports the plan to get more people on the river but insists that safety is paramount.
And then the skies will clear, the prawns will return to the river and the sun will smile once more.
Up to 30 inches of rain fell in a two-day period, causing floods in the Guadalupe and San Antonio River basins that left more than 30 people dead, according to the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority.
His ongoing effort to stretch six miles of fabric over the Arkansas River has proven even more epic, proving so contentious that locals recently took the Bureau of Land Management to court for sanctioning it.
The task is made more difficult by the Yazoo River, which empties into the Mississippi north of the bridges, increasing the speed of the current.
But nowhere are the changes more apparent than along the Chagres River itself, dammed in 1913 to form Gatun Lake, as part of the Panama Canal project.
The company, however, continued to run crude beneath the Yellowstone after finding that a section of pipeline leading away from the river was still buried more than 6 feet deep.
On its tidy streets, cradled in a bend of the Sundays River, are more than 220 buildings designated as national monuments, many of which now house museums, galleries, guesthouses and restaurants.
The new facility, on the shores of the Hackensack River, occupies more than half of an 80-acre site that was formerly home to one of Jersey City's most infamous landfills, where smoke would billow from underground fires caused by chemicals interacting and trees would be swallowed whole into the decaying land.
The more northerly sections of the river, where there was less sewage, were far more appealing than their southern counterparts.
The Wabash River in Tippecanoe County reached more than 14 feet above flood stage on Saturday, the highest level since 1958.
If the millennium celebrations do further encourage the revival of the river, the seals might soon have a lot more company.
All that remains unresolved is a small stretch along the Amur River near the Russian city of Khabarovsk, where three small river islands, no more than 12 sq km in total, are not yet covered by treaty.
The markets that they generate are more like a turbulent river or the weather system, subject to constant storms and seizures of all sizes.
Perched along the Roaring Fork River, the picturesque city promises a whole lot more of your favourite things than just raindrops on roses.
PCBs are now embedded at the bottom of the river, getting buried under more and more mud as time goes on.
The yard, based on the River Torridge, has built more than 350 ships, including naval fishery protection vessels, trawlers, passenger-vehicle ferries, dredgers and bulk carriers.
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