ConocoPhillips has substantial positions in gas plays in the Eagle Ford and Bakken shales, and alongside ExxonMobil in the Horn River region of western Canada.
The next wave is small power projects in the Pearl River Delta region.
The new bird flu virus outbreak continues to dominate media headlines, as China Central Television reports 14 diagnosed cases and five deaths in the Yangtze River Delta region.
Wednesday, the Chinese Academy of Sciences said the H7N9 virus probably came from migratory birds from East Asia that mixed with domestic fowl in China's Yangtze River delta region around Shanghai.
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Union Pacific was no different but increased coal mining activity in Powder River Basin region situated in parts of Wyoming and Montana could reverse the slide in coal freight volumes for the company.
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And in the Jubba River Valley region, ironically, this is the same area of Somalia that was heavily hit by flooding earlier this year, where there are an awful lot of displaced people, and where there's awful lot of trauma.
The city of Shanghai has been utterly transformed, and development at an astonishing pace has spread far down the length of the Yangzi river, a region encompassing perhaps 300m people.
Burkesville sits amid rolling hills near the Tennessee-Kentucky state line along the Cumberland River, in the Appalachia region.
Around 70 people were killed by floods in Ethiopia's eastern Ogaden region after a river burst its banks.
Each of the eight FRIEND networks shares information, data and techniques, in order to monitor climate variability and change in river basins in a given region.
The city hired the consultant Parsons Brinckerhoff in early 2011 to study the merits of extending the subway, shortly after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie canceled the planned "Access to the Region's Core" cross-river tunnel project, which was a blow to those who believe the region is hampered by the limited capacity for trains crossing the Hudson between Manhattan and the suburbs.
In Part 3 , we look at how the main water source for most of this region, the Colorado River, has been affected by drought, and how that may affect the water politics in the upcoming decades.
For one of the prettiest drives in the region, follow the Maggia River out of Locarno through the idyllic Valle Maggia into the southern slope of the Swiss Alps.
Syria contends that the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin agreed during lower-level peace talks that stalled in 1996 to return the Golan, a water-rich region that overlooks the upper Jordan River valley.
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That makes it an important part of the plan to lessen the region's reliance on the Colorado river.
When talking about Palestine, the speaker is referring to the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River that includes the Jewish state of Israel and the Palestinian lands of the West Bank and Gaza.
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But overall, the report's conclusion is that observations need to be stepped up to enable better projections of the future for the estimated 210 million people living in the region and the 1.3 billion living in river basins supplied by Himalayan meltwater.
It appears many are moving into the Chao Phraya river basin north of Bangkok, the country's main farming region and its chief centre of population.
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The region has been unable to match the success of the Yangtze and Pearl River deltas in attracting investment in low-technology, labour-intensive private industry.
ASEAN's founders dreamed that their organization would one day span the whole region, from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific, from the Red River delta to the rice padis of Java.
Equally, last year's flooding of the Mekong river, which devastated large parts of Cambodia, should serve as a warning to the region, says David McCauley, head of the ADB's climate-change programme.
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