Officials said Ms Rousseff had rejected the article dealing with the riverbanks, ensuring their continued protection.
Whole families crowd into boats, laughing and yelling as they crash into riverbanks and other kayaks.
Some lived on unsafe hillsides and riverbanks, because the space was cheap or available.
And then, as if on cue, the heavens opened, rain lashing those gathered on the riverbanks below.
Trees crowd the riverbanks, with some tall cedars extending out over the water.
The Blue Nile moves fast through the city, careening against the riverbanks as if it's already late for something.
It would also have allowed farming closer to riverbanks, which are especially vulnerable to erosion if trees are chopped down.
People stroll the riverbanks, listening to live music, and pause for a drink in one of the many open-air cafes.
In Varanasi, her guests travel on the river in flower-decked boats with musicians instead of just watching from the riverbanks as other travelers do.
Plus, you should also not be surprised to see wild orangutans lurking on the riverbanks, or idly watching klotoks pass from the forest canopy.
All this waste could be easily diverted from the streets, riverbanks, and beaches, if we had the infrastructure to reclaim packaging and products at the end of consumption.
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Steering between stone weirs and hidden eddies, the boatman points out wildlife along the riverbanks: shelducks in the shallows, water buffalo in the grass, a grey heron hidden among the reeds.
Farther upstream, the horizon turns pink and the boat punts towards hundreds of squawking flamingos, hopping in and out of the water as they forage for lunch or fly off to the riverbanks.
Cities sprang up along riverbanks and railroad tracks.
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When Irene brought torrential rains in August 2011, the lower sections of the dams couldn't be lifted on short notice and debris built up, causing the raging waters to carve new channels through the riverbanks.
Ms. BEINECKE: And you want people to know that, that, you know, it's not only what's happening along the riverbanks and whether it's silt or deforestation, but also just changing temperatures are going to have long term consequences.
The roads to Helena, Arkansas, and Clarksdale, Mississippi, two towns on opposite sides of the Mississippi that played big roles in the development of the blues, have been widened and slathered with new coats of asphalt to enable them to handle traffic heading to the casinos that have proliferated like kudzu along the riverbanks.
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