Sadly there is no easy way to string together a long, continuous river run.
When Zeddie Little was accidentally snapped while completing the 2012 Cooper River Bridge Run, he couldn't possibly have known the impact it would have on his life.
Its owner and founder, Patrick Cunningham, an entrepreneur with a winter ski rental business, helped establish the now-popular river outings run by a dozen companies from spring through fall.
Assign each group one of the following rivers on the top 13 list: Missouri River, Canning River, Eel River, Hudson River, Powder River, Mississippi River, Big Sandy River, Snoqualmie River, Animas River, East Fork Lewis, Paine Run, Hackensack River and Catawba River.
The drama unfolded Thursday evening amidst the 123 acres of Falls Park, which is named -- like the city of Sioux Falls itself -- for the series of picturesque Big Sioux River waterfalls that run through it.
East of the River Adur, the downs run in three long plateaux, separated by stream and river valleys.
Not solar and wind, but a relatively obscure type of hydroelectric power that is quickly becoming all the rage: run of river.
In an unusual step, there are no advance ticket sales for The River - which will run in the Court's small upstairs theatre from 18 October.
Run of river will not completely replace conventional hydro.
Run-of-the-river dams like Baglihar consume nothing, since water must flow to run turbines.
Tributaries built by American engineers in the 1950's run off the river feeding the surrounding fields.
The river below the bridge has run dry, matching the hot, dusty landscape.
When New York is hit by heavy rain, some human waste is run into the river untreated as "combined sewer overflows, " Waldman said.
Currently run by Severn River Crossing Plc, the bridge will return to public ownership when the firm has collected a fixed sum of money from tolls, expected to be around 2017.
Curiouser still, these new phones will reportedly run on Wind River Linux rather than the new Linux-based version of the Palm OS that PalmSource is working on (probably because the new Palm OS won't be ready until next year at the earliest).
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For junior hydroelectric companies, these run-of-river projects are a less expensive, more efficient, and fish-friendlier way to get in on the energy game.
Indiscriminate logging and deforestation have caused the exposed soil to run off into the river, silting it up and reducing its water-flow capacity.
But because factories were allowed to -- allowing warm water to run back into the river, the temperature was becoming too high for the salmon to survive.
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Special arrangements can be made to take the North Borneo Railway further afield, as far as Beaufort and even on the spectacular run over the Padas River to Tenom.
Apply the usual rule of thumb, where one megawatt will supply the needs of 500-900 average houses, and this run-of-river plant could serve as many as 2.4 million homes.
These dams, such as Xayaburi, will have no significant storage capacity and are known as run-of-river projects, where the flow through the powerhouse and spillway is virtually the same as the inflow to the reservoir.
Instead of building a great wall across the Xingu to create a massive reservoir, Belo Monte is designed as a run-of-river dam, a technique that harnesses the natural flow of the river to drive the turbines.
Even the rivers of the Kola peninsula, so heavily promoted by American and British travel companies, now seem under threat, with biologists estimating that poachers kill up to 50% of the salmon run on the Kola River and as much as a third on the Umba, Kharlovka and Rynda.
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Since the 1990s, he had run the Andy Williams Moon River Theater in his home town.
Light winds and the traditional difficult run to the finish on the Derwent River left the outcome in doubt to the very end, even before the protest.
The project would involve the building of five dams on two fast-flowing rivers that run into the Pacific - two on the river Baker, and three on the river Pascua.
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Egypt's Deputy Foreign Minister for African Affairs, Ali Hifni, said that the diversion of the river was not something to worry about, according to the Egyptian state-run news agency Mena.
"The dam is being built in the middle of the river so you can't carry out construction work while the river flowed, " Mihret Debebe, chief executive officer of the state-run Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation, told the Reuters news agency.
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