So the River Ganges appeared here in Mandakini's form - a tributary of Ganga.
This is a drowned volcanic valley, so the river is very, very deep.
"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.
Even the noise you make when you sleep, can't swim across the river so deep.
Johns River so contending with flooding, we still have communities under water from Faye.
It is the 1948 Pecos River Compact that makes the river so complicated.
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The solution: Reverse the river so it would flow southwest to St.
In 1858, parliament was famously suspended because the stench coming from the river was so bad.
Heavy machinery was brought in to break up and remove ice from the river, so that boats and divers could get in, Sideras explained.
The wave breaks at the river mouth so you can rinse off in a fresh water pool with a view of light green pyramid-shaped mountains in the valley.
"The Margaree River is so bountiful and interesting, " says Allen.
It takes about as long to get a container from Long Beach, California, to Shanghai as it does to get one from Shanghai to Chongqing, a thousand miles or so up the Yangzi river.
The further they are from the river banks, the lesser their chance of getting attacked, so the sandbars in the middle of the river fill up first, with the birds jostling for a good place.
"So long as the Mississippi River flows to the sea, we will never forget your generosity, " she said.
"When the streets started to be redeveloped the event planners realized it was easier to do these types of celebrations on dry land, so they forgot about the river, " said Evans.
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The river once was so polluted it caught fire.
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So large a quantity of them enters into this river that at night one is unable to sleep, so great is the noise they make in falling upon the water.
Perhaps the most famous example is the Cuyahoga River, which was so covered with pollution and industrial waste that in 1969 it literally caught fire.
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Cole, founder of the Hudson River School, was so keen to do justice to the panoramic breadth of this Catskill landscape that his drawing extends across two pages of his sketchbook.
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For two decades, beginning in 1985, the city worked to clean up a blighted 13-mile industrial corridor along the Tennessee River, a stretch so filthy that motorists used to have to use their headlights during the day.
"It's so beautiful seeing the meandering Hudson River, the Adirondacks to the north, the Green Mountains in Vermont and the Catskills to the south, " says pilot Greg Livadas, a Rochester, New York pilot who has been flying in the festival for more than 30 years.
After their major bet on the Thilawa special economic zone south of Yangon, Japanese contractors have plans to deepen the Yangon River's estuary so that cargo ships can sail directly up to the city's shores and offload more containers of cars that are already being briskly snapped up at busy dealerships.
Ingeniously, the design connects them, and so reconnects downtown Bilbao with its forgotten river.
Authorities had little immediate explanation on how so many dead pigs ended up the river or what killed them.
And as fish stock increases, so too will wildlife connected to the river system, including otters, water voles and bird life.
Local economies also suffer when villagers can't sell their grain or eat the crops planted along the river because the water is so polluted.
So in March members of the Mississippi River Collaborative, an environmental group, filed a lawsuit designed to force all those involved to think about ways to solve the problem.
According to Dr McMahon, a big part of the problem is that both species can survive out of the water for several days, so transporting a boat overland from one river basin to another, a common practice in North America, will not necessarily kill them.
"I haven't been down to the water so I don't know if the River Wye is flooded, " she said.
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