The villagers have established a system of breeding trout via natural water pools, fed by the rivers and streams.
That cold current is the reason why Peru's coastal plain is a desert (whose soil can be made fertile when irrigated by the waters of rivers rushing down from the Andes).
The bars and dry cleaners visible on its street maps of New York get replaced by the names of rivers and small-town roads in the distance.
Similar scenes at 28 meetings have fired up rural Australia since the water-use plan was unveiled in early October by the authority responsible for managing the basin formed by two of Australia's longest rivers, the Murray and the Darling.
The tidal basin formed by the two converging rivers was named "dubh linn" (meaning "black pool") by Celts, who had inhabited the area upstream as early as 500 BC.
And our thoughts are with all the families, communities, and first responders affected by the flooding along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and their many tributaries that have been threatening lives and property.
Once the transit agreement is finalised, then it will be cheaper for Indian traders to send goods by ship along Bangladeshi rivers up to the border and then take them by road to the north-eastern states.
Observe the flooded plains, covered by water driven ashore by sustained winds, and the rivers overflowing their banks.
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There were a lot of mansions built on the rivers by steamboat captains or owners.
The state was ravaged in the summer of 2008 by torrential rains that flooded nine rivers in the state, forcing tens of thousands of residents to flee their homes and destroying billions of dollars of property.
Damage has also been caused to bridges by "scouring" - the wear caused by flotsam colliding with bridge piers below the waterline of the rivers they span.
Starting in the 1960s, the Soviet bureaucracy irrigated cotton fields in Uzbekistan by diverting Himalayan rivers that used to feed the Aral Sea.
In theory, that would cause the rivers fed by Himalayan glaciers to flood.
From the top, I took in the panorama, the city flanked by the Mekong and Nam Khan rivers and shrouded in ribbons of spun-cotton fog.
The Otters and Rivers Projects aims by 2003 to have otter populations return to all of the river systems where the creatures have been recorded since 1960.
In a number of areas the ground remains frozen beneath the surface, which means excess water will run into rivers instead of being absorbed by the soil.
The holts are part of the Otters and Rivers Project, a joint initiative by Water UK and the Wildlife Trust.
By capitalizing on the country's rivers, the state moves towards greater energy independence.
Inland, gold output from the dredges on the rivers has fallen by half.
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In 1940 Donald Bailey of Britain's Royal Engineers used his Erector Set to design the portable Bailey Bridge, which spanned creeks and rivers and was hailed by Eisenhower as one of the three most important technological advancements of the war, along with radar and heavy bombers.
The first FD trip took place in 2001 when 10 cancer survivors hit the rivers of Colorado in whitewater kayaks led by professional kayaker Brad Ludden, who was just 20 at the time.
She also spoke to people who were affected by the 2009 floods when unprecedented rainfall caused rivers to burst their banks.
They are widely regarded as a world-class natural attraction containing marvellous stream passages formed by three rivers that sink underground on the slopes of Cuilcagh Mountain.
Today, they have taken on mythical status, watery ghosts whose presence is now often only marked by street names dating back to when the rivers were above ground.
Ms Stancliffe-Vaughan, a PhD student, said the biodiversity of the rivers was also under threat due to the erosion and siltation caused by the signal crayfish.
The journey could take months, as families crossed rivers in the dead of night, traveled miles by foot, endured a rough and dangerous passage over the North Atlantic.
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In the neighbouring state of New South Wales, rivers swollen by weeks of persistent rain are expected to start bursting their banks this weekend amid downpours across the region.
The Arctic's vulnerability is exacerbated by increasing flows of freshwater from rivers and melting land ice, as freshwater is less effective at chemically neutralising the acidifying effects of CO2.
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