It hopes to recruit more local farmers to turn their riverside land back into salt marshes, which can still be used for grazing.

BBC: Work carried out to protect Severn Estuary salt marshes

These riverside towns also hope to bargain for federal dollars in order, among other things, to clean up the land that riverside industry polluted.

ECONOMIST: Cities and rivers

The county council approved the sale of the land at Riverside Park to Kuwaiti European Holdings Company (KEHC), pending certain conditions, in March.

BBC: Newhaven 'largest water park' plans scrapped

Work is to start in the summer on development of derelict land along the riverside in Northampton.

BBC: An artist's impression of St Peter's Way Development

Now he hopes to land a residency in family medicine in Riverside, Calif.

WSJ: Squeeze Looms for Doctors