Sadly there is no easy way to string together a long, continuous river run.
Aside from this jarring image, Tirin Kot is a bucolic-seeming place, a market town of flat-topped adobe houses and little shops on a low bluff on the eastern shore of the Tirinrud River, in a long valley bounded by open desert and jagged, treeless mountains.
Its main solution is to build more large dams (390 are under construction), and river diversions, including a long-mooted extravaganza of 30 linkages which would unite most of India's river basins.
Perth is a lifestyle city, with a long coastline and the Swan river running through it.
And one of the many impediments to a long-mooted scheme to use the San Juan river for a second trans- ismithian canal is that it marks the frontier between Nicaragua and Costa Rica : efforts to patrol it frequently spark tension.
Expect to be on call for any crisis that ?arises, even if it conflicts with a long-planned, once-in-a-lifetime Mekong River cruise.
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Starting from Nong Khiaw in the early morning, our guide Dhit sat quietly as we drifted around 10km downstream along the calm Nam Ou River in a narrow long-tail boat.
The rig was working on what will be a 25-story building near the East River in Queens' Long Island City neighborhood, behind a large neon Pepsi-Cola sign that serves as a local landmark.
The District on Apache, a 1, 200-bed student-housing community set to open within walking distance of Arizona State next year, will feature an oversize outdoor movie screen, steam rooms and a 300-foot-long "lazy river" water feature, according to architect Mark Humphreys, whose firm designed University House.
The pastime of punting - propelling a long, flat-bottomed boat along the river - is popular in both cities.
Too many people who live in the cities and towns that flank the Mississippi have forgotten that a river as grand and nearly as long as the Nile flows beside them.
Argentina and Uruguay both say they are happy after a deal was reached to end their long-running row over a pulp mill on the banks of their shared river.
For Reyes, the river opening is a capstone to a long campaign and elected office career.
Williamson sits along the Tug Fork River in a part of the state long associated with violence.
"Our biological surveys have shown there is likely to be a long-term impact on the flora and fauna of the river, " Mr Robinson said.
Six miles east of Lanercost, I reach the tranquil bend of the River Irthing, where a new bridge carries the long-distance footpath to the hamlet of Willowford.
The long-range goal calls for restoring the river in a way that benefits not only salmon, but also society in general.
The temple elephant, Lakshmi, carefully lumbers down the long stairs to the river and blesses the pilgrims with a spray of water before receiving her morning bath.
Our way to the river cut between two walled orchards, and the convoy, a long line of slow-moving trucks, was taking fire from both sides.
"A long time ago the city fathers spurned the railroads because they already had such great river commerce, " says Richard Fleming, chief executive of the St.
Launched from the small town of Dumbarton on the banks of the River Clyde in western Scotland in 1869, the Cutty Sark has a long and colorful history.
Luxor lies on the banks of the River Nile in the south of the country, and has long been a popular tourist destination.
The fair's 180 gallery booths occupy a long, serpentine tent hugging the edge of the island, with windows on the East River and Manhattan.
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The July 2011 rupture of the 12-inch pipeline under the river near Laurel fouled 70 miles of the Yellowstone River's banks, killing fish and wildlife and prompting a massive, months-long cleanup.
And, yes, there are even fish in the river -- carp, catfish and bass -- and anglers can drop a line as long as they have a state permit.
This 7km-long white-knuckle adventure combines hiking, climbing over smooth rock slabs alongside waterfalls, ziplining over a surging river and navigating wild canyons via bridges and metal rungs.
Like the legendary ancient Roman hero, Publius Horatius Cocles (Horatius to his friends) - who legend has it saved his city and made possible its future glory by singlehandedly holding off an army of Etruscan warriors at a bridge over the Tiber River - he has not been dissuaded from fighting for what he believes in by long odds or intense political pressure.
Once or twice a week, Siu boarded the public ferry for an hour-long trip across the rolling gray waters of the Pearl River estuary.
Last October, as the sun set over the Hudson River, I approached a heavyset man in black kilt who wore thick, rimless glasses and had a long, waxed mustache.
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