They have seasonal access to wild-caught (better than farmed) King salmon (larger and more desirable than sockeye) from the Columbia River (one of the greatest salmon locales), and the piece I had, cooked on an alder wood plank, was THE best salmon I have ever tasted.

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The Yellow River, one of the world's longest, supplies water to more than 150 million people and 15 percent of China's agricultural land.

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At one construction on a river in Charsadda, built by the British colonial government, more than twice the volume of water of the previous record flood, in 1929, gushed in, snapping off its gates.

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And he then followed that up by taking the Irish Open at Adare Manor six months later, providing one of the more enduring images of the golfing calendar by treating himself to a leap in the river by way of celebration.

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The new facility, on the shores of the Hackensack River, occupies more than half of an 80-acre site that was formerly home to one of Jersey City's most infamous landfills, where smoke would billow from underground fires caused by chemicals interacting and trees would be swallowed whole into the decaying land.

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One of the more ambitious acquisitions was made by Warren Buffett's Mid-American Energy, which purchased the Kern River pipeline in 2002.

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