So with his lofty goal and sparse equipment, he goes from river to prairie to forest to swamp, discovering things along the way.
And in Guyana and Suriname, coastal farmers irrigating with water from river estuaries have had to stop: because of the rivers' weak flow, it was sea-water.
Twice yearly, an accident of solstice, orientation and geometry sends golden shafts of setting sun straight through the grid from river to river, west to east, an occasion that would be celebrated by people less in a hurry.
He set up free primary and secondary schools all over India, had another free hospital built at Bangalore, and paid for drinking water to be piped from the Krishna river to Chennai and from the Godavari river to upland Andhra Pradesh.
The flood defences, completed in June, were meant reduce to the likelihood of flooding from the River Caen from a one-in-20 chance of occurring in a particular year to one-in-100.
However, the floods did not come from the river, they come from parking lots.
More than 180 homes and businesses at risk of flooding from the River Greta will benefit from the Environment Agency's scheme.
The hearing was told the otters which killed his stock came from a river less than two miles away from his fish farm in the village of Tregarth.
The Environment Agency has downgraded warnings for the River Isle from Chard Reservoir to Hambridge, Winford Brook at Chew Magna and River Chew from Chew Stoke to Keynsham.
The Jubilee River, a flood relief channel which diverts flood water away from the River Thames, will protect up to 3, 300 properties in the area.
Mr Simplot himself, an avowed lover of skiing, duck shooting and the great outdoors, was attacked in the 1970s for his support for new coal-fired electricity plants along the Snake river and for a scheme to generate hydro-power by diverting water from another river into a vast underground tube.
The proposals form part of Peel Energy's vision to develop the mouth of the River Mersey into a "renewables hub" and sits alongside plans to harness tidal power from the river.
Leaving behind this city of Buddhist temples and delicious French pastries (one of the few reminders of the colonial era) the river winds its way through a landscape dominated by forested sugar-loaf mountains that in places rise vertiginously from the river.
He and his family moved north and now make a living from the river.
Parking will be about 0.8 of a mile from the river there, Buckley said.
In the Midlands, it rescued fish from the River Lathkill in Derbyshire after it dried up.
In 1858, parliament was famously suspended because the stench coming from the river was so bad.
Work has begun on removing several tonnes of silt from the River Nene in Northamptonshire.
The silt will be removed from the river using an excavator on a barge.
Mr. Aguilar eventually pulled a young gator from the river bottom, and I snapped a photo.
But they said water from the river was safe, with water quality meeting government-set standards.
In Greek mythology drinking from the river Lethe erases memories of a past life.
Around 1, 000 dead ducks have been pulled from a river in southwest China, local officials say.
There is no sanitation, and water has to be carried from a river outside the town.
Nor is it just marine life that stands to benefit from removing river impediments.
These have traditionally played the role of water-catchment areas, absorbing any overflow from the river.
The industry uses regulated amounts of water from the Athabasca River to separate bitumen from the sand.
The Cuicocha lagoon was born from a river of tears coming down the slopes of Mt Cotacachi.
About ten minutes after we got back to camp, we heard loud explosions coming from the river.
In a statement, Shanghai authorities said that 5, 916 dead pigs had been removed from the river by Tuesday.
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