One boy was swept away by rushing waters in a culvert, but he miraculously escaped with just a dislocated elbow, and no other major injuries were reported.

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And so I leave you this morning as a gray mist spreads across the castle stonewall, gazing out at the rushing waters beyond lost in an Irish reverie.

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The inundation in the Far North Region has affected more than 26, 000, officials said Thursday, and in neighboring Nigeria at least 15 deaths are blamed on waters rushing into the country from Cameroon's compromised Lagdo Dam on the Benoue River.

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That cold current is the reason why Peru's coastal plain is a desert (whose soil can be made fertile when irrigated by the waters of rivers rushing down from the Andes).

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Already, as the waters recede, Mozambican peasants have been rushing back to plant beans and maize in the silt.

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The approach some lawmakers would take, rushing the permitting process in ways that would put our workers and waters at needless risk, is something we just can't afford.

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To address these questions, scientists from China and elsewhere are rushing around the oceans from ice-cold polar regions to the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool, the warmest marine waters in the world.

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