Because of lower water-tables and depleted aquifers, many rivers can no longer replenish themselves in the dry season.
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Haitian singer Emeline Michel performed "Many Rivers to Cross, " a Jimmy Cliff song.
There are limited human activities in the buffer zone, and the transition area, which includes forests, plain areas, wetlands and many rivers, is where most economic activities take place.
Even her adlibbed asides establish that she's deep inside the feeling of a song, a knack that makes her covers (of Jimmy Cliff's "Many Rivers to Cross" or the Hollies' "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother") particularly stirring.
But Austin, the Brookings analyst, said economic revival also depends on doing more to make the region's 10, 000 miles of Great Lakes shoreline and many rivers and inland lakes a draw for tourists and for service companies that want a beautiful setting.
Although government regulators insist that Malathion is relatively benign to humans and pets, environmental regulators have measured its presence in swimming lakes and rivers at many times the level officially considered safe.
National Weather Service officials said Sunday several river regions were at "record flood territory, " and while rivers in many locations were close to cresting, additional rain over the coming days could prevent them from receding quickly.
BOSTON A common antianxiety drug, which like many medications ends up in rivers and streams in trace amounts, alters how fish behave, Swedish scientists reported Thursday.
Each day, 300 million gallons of polluted mine water enters Pennsylvania streams and rivers, turning many of them into dead zones unable to support aquatic life.
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.
The twin pipelines that will deliver the oil and gas to the island's southern tip cross around 1, 000 rivers and streams, many of which are used by spawning salmon.
No wonder that, after damming so many of the world's rivers, even enthusiastic engineers have lost faith in these megaprojects except in China, which has some of the world's worst water problems.
And the melt water forms an essential part of many of the world's major rivers.
Many traverse nature reserves, meander along rivers or venture into steep mountain terrain.
As rivers burst their banks, many were trapped in their homes while in other areas entire villages are reported to have been swept away.
Although there are easily enough dammable rivers to double the current electricity supply, many of the best sites are in remote Amazonia.
In November and December, many places in Gloucestershire became flooded as the already swollen rivers and saturated ground were unable to contain the heavy rainfall.
Many of those who died were sleeping as Typhoon Washi caused rivers to burst their banks, leading to landslides.
Residents are "surrounded by flowing raw sewage, " and many have been forced to resort to drink contaminated water from rivers, the group said.
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According to Scottish Natural Heritage, 72 of Scotland's rivers support reproducing populations of freshwater pearl mussel including many of the world's largest populations.
Reduced flow rates on China's greatest rivers have made hydro plants reduce badly needed power output: many smelters, paper mills and petrochemical plants are no longer sure of getting the huge amounts of water they require.
Aid organizations inside Zimbabwe warn that the contagious disease is spreading fast since raw sewage from burst pipes near the capital, Harare, flowed into wells, rivers and streams, the only source of drinking water for many Zimbabweans.
Then come rivers, marshes, accidents, bad roads, which are so many difficulties to be surmounted.
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Many sought to capture the grandeur of Africa's landscapes its rivers and gardens.
While many weekday late-night efforts have failed (see Fox's earlier attempts with Joan Rivers and Chevy Chase), a successful late-night show can mint millions for a network.
The commission said important data on the 49, 000 miles of rivers and streams in the basin comes from a network of gauges, but funding for many of those was lost in 2011.
The destruction by the latest count, 22 bridges down and 18 more damaged, 450 kilometres of main roads damaged and 3, 500 of minor ones, besides many hundreds of schools and tens of thousands of houses was mainly due to rain, swollen rivers and floodwater.
Many areas are simply impossible to protect, such as the Brahmaputra valley in Assam, where one of the mightiest rivers in the world keeps changing its course on its flat flood plain.
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