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  • Right now, at least six new bridges are being built over the Nile Rivers.

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  • But it had no permission to fly over Sangam - where the rivers meet - and take pictures.

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  • Indian states including Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, have also been embroiled in disputes over sharing water from common rivers.

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  • All told, dozens of Midwestern rivers were well over their banks after rains that began Wednesday dumped up to 6 inches of new water on already saturated soil.

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  • He chose to talk over his episodes with Mr. Rivers, not his own father.

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  • Most strangely, the prints traveled uninterrupted by obstacles in their path, running up walls, over roofs, haystacks and across rivers.

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  • The system is huge, with canals and navigable rivers in some instances over ten times and more the width of our largest, with barges carrying over 1000 tons in a single barge.

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  • Security Council to expand efforts to enhance cooperation over water in shared lakes or rivers, from the Mekong to the Nile, which are likely to see surging demand and decreased supply as the result of population growth and climate change.

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  • Even as the business stayed much the same over 20 years, the Mississippi and Illinois rivers were in the throes of revolution.

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  • Local authorities also say they have found no links between cases of H7N9 and over 16, 000 dead pigs found in rivers near Shanghai, China Daily reports.

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  • Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota and Pennsylvania filed an unsuccessful federal lawsuit against Illinois over a Chicago-area network of canals and rivers that could provide a pathway to Lake Michigan for Asian carp.

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  • So, in my first months of office I signed a public lands bill -- that many of you worked on -- that designated two million acres of wilderness, over 1, 000 miles of wild and scenic rivers and three national parks. (Applause.) I'm very proud of that.

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  • As a result, the Environment Agency is working with local authorities and emergency services to prepare for possible flooding from rivers, groundwater and surface water across the country over the weekend.

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  • 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.

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  • Rivers to Louisiana's southeast, near Mississippi, have also gone over flood stage, but inundation has not been dramatic there.

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  • Over the years Singh says his organization and the villagers of Rajasthan have revived seven rivers across the state helping more than a thousand villages.

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  • Images of these rivers were compared with a model developed by Perron of how a river network evolves over time.

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  • "We've had so much change over the last three or four weeks with different guys, I just like the continuity now, " Rivers said.

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  • Martin McGuinn, who took over as chief executive two years ago, is a lawyer by training and oblivious to banker's hours: He's gazing over Pittsburgh from his top-floor office by 5:30 every morning, when the three sprawling rivers below are still black as the coal buried deep in the surrounding hills.

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  • Where stones are scattered in rivers and shallow soil, as in Sierra Leone or Angola, armed rivals are likelier to scrap over them.

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  • The journey could take months, as families crossed rivers in the dead of night, traveled miles by foot, endured a rough and dangerous passage over the North Atlantic.

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  • Back home, they had to deal with an utterly flat landscape laced by rivers and canals much of it below sea level, reclaimed by dikes forever loomed over by dark gray clouds, damp mists, and rain or snow.

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