The 14km long River Wandle flows through south London, starting at Croydon it passes through Sutton and Merton before joining River Thames at Wandsworth.
BBC: NEWS | UK | England | London | Toxic spill in river kills fish
Experts say the stretch of river is one of the most dangerous along the 2, 500-mile-long river.
The short pause would be their final break before their surge up the 12km-long Adams River, sometimes battling nine-knot currents.
Sadly there is no easy way to string together a long, continuous river run.
Some of the spillway's gates will likely be open for weeks, and it'll be at least that long before the river falls safely below flood stage and those who have evacuated can safely return, said Col.
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.
Ghana long ago dammed the River Volta, Egypt the Nile, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique the Zambezi.
"So long as the Mississippi River flows to the sea, we will never forget your generosity, " she said.
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.
And long live our great nation and long live Palestine, free and Arab from the river to the sea.
East of the River Adur, the downs run in three long plateaux, separated by stream and river valleys.
Perth is a lifestyle city, with a long coastline and the Swan river running through it.
And not to serious readers, either, who likely will have long ago floated off the river of content.
As for the Yamuna river, long the main source of the city's drinking water, it is clinically dead.
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.
Now it is government bureaucrats who seem to be terrorising the place, taking revenge for the long abuse of a very sick river.
No, what he cares about, what thrills him every time, is knowing that this is it, the beginning of the long-awaited day at the river, as agreed to by himself in advance.
But for as long as people are exposed to the river, they will be exposed to the disease.
This year, two EDGE species the long-eared jerboa and the Yangtze river dolphin have made global news for very different reasons.
Travel up the Columbia River, which has long supplied this area with cheap electrical power, and you can see and hear what's luring students into the energy field.
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.
At long last, we reached the Wild River, promptly disrobed and sat in the low but rushing stream, letting the cool water wash over us as we filled and sterilized our bottles.
To his mind he was no more a thief of Nature than when, a country boy during the Depression, he had hooked 20-pound channel catfish, now long gone, out of the Chattahoochee River.
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.
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.
Not so long ago this mill town on the Naugatuck River was an industrial powerhouse.
The pastime of punting - propelling a long, flat-bottomed boat along the river - is popular in both cities.
The long-range goal calls for restoring the river in a way that benefits not only salmon, but also society in general.
Long's recent works include the Road River, on Box Hill, in Surrey, on the route of the 2012 Olympic cycle road races.
BBC: Bristol artist Richard Long among Queen's New Year Honours
The exhibit is to open next year at the museum in the Long Island City neighborhood, across the East River from midtown Manhattan.
应用推荐