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).
Bolivia is an associate Mercosur member and has already signed up Argentine barges, which carry soyabean and sugar down the Paraguay and Parana rivers.
But basically, the rain is coming, it's hitting the mountains and it's just coming racing down into the valley, into the rivers, overflowing the rivers, and flooding the city.
The rains came up from India, washing the Himalayas, filling the rivers of the Punjab, pouring down water on the Hindu Kush and on the plain that extends from the Khyber to Karachi.
In the past two years the rivers flowing down to Goa on India's west coast have teemed with barges carrying iron ore bound for China.
Were there an awards ceremony for this sort of activity, these celebrities and activists would be strutting down the red carpet, and Joan Rivers would be critiquing their clothing choices.
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The Icefields Parkway that stretches from Lake Louise to the south and Jasper at the northern end has towering peaks, tumbling unspoiled rivers, massive sheets of glacial ice flowing down the valley to meet the road, and hanging above in the rafters of the peaks.
Never put chemicals or oil down the drain -- they will contaminate rivers and then make its toxic way into our oceans.
In a boat up the mountain rivers, we saw dazzling walls of green and countless waterfalls tumbling down the hills like dozens of shimmering tears.
They are fashioned to capture the rain so the water will trickle down and replenish the aquifer eventually giving rise to water in the wells and bringing dead rivers back to life.
According to American Rivers, the National Marine Fisheries service continues to down play the importance of dam removal by underestimating dam-related salmon mortality.
As a public service, it is obliged to deliver letters and packages to every corner of Germany, from islands in the Baltic Sea to the Bavarian Alps (its publicists peddle photographs of loyal employees punting down rivers to reach obscure addresses).
Float silently down rivers, past trees and wildflowers (canoes are also available from Mutinondo Wilderness Lodge for the swimming-averse), and you will feel as though you are somewhere that has been untouched for hundreds of years.
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And one of the biggest gripes by the local tribes, some federal prosecutors in Para, and international environmental groups like International Rivers and Amazon Watch, has been that the Brazilian government has yet to really sit down and hear the complaints from the people who depend on that river for their livelihood.
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