The 14km long River Wandle flows through south London, starting at Croydon it passes through Sutton and Merton before joining River Thames at Wandsworth.
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The temple elephant, Lakshmi, carefully lumbers down the long stairs to the river and blesses the pilgrims with a spray of water before receiving her morning bath.
No, what he cares about, what thrills him every time, is knowing that this is it, the beginning of the long-awaited day at the river, as agreed to by himself in advance.
Experts say the stretch of river is one of the most dangerous along the 2, 500-mile-long river.
The short pause would be their final break before their surge up the 12km-long Adams River, sometimes battling nine-knot currents.
As for the Yamuna river, long the main source of the city's drinking water, it is clinically dead.
"So long as the Mississippi River flows to the sea, we will never forget your generosity, " she said.
The exhibit is to open next year at the museum in the Long Island City neighborhood, across the East River from midtown Manhattan.
Some of the spillway's gates will likely be open for weeks, and it'll be at least that long before the river falls safely below flood stage and those who have evacuated can safely return, said Col.
We are just beginning to see the results of the long and successful effort to reclaim the Hudson River waterfront for public use in the river-front gardens and promenades of Lower Manhattan and the tree- and rose-lined bicycle and running paths that have transformed the water's edge on West Street.
The long-range goal calls for restoring the river in a way that benefits not only salmon, but also society in general.
Williamson sits along the Tug Fork River in a part of the state long associated with violence.
Perth is a lifestyle city, with a long coastline and the Swan river running through it.
Ghana long ago dammed the River Volta, Egypt the Nile, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique the Zambezi.
To his mind he was no more a thief of Nature than when, a country boy during the Depression, he had hooked 20-pound channel catfish, now long gone, out of the Chattahoochee River.
It is the major 3 mile long bridge connecting the west side of the Hudson River and Rockland County New York with the east side in Westchester County, 20 miles upriver from the George Washington Bridge.
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East of the River Adur, the downs run in three long plateaux, separated by stream and river valleys.
And one of the many impediments to a long-mooted scheme to use the San Juan river for a second trans- ismithian canal is that it marks the frontier between Nicaragua and Costa Rica : efforts to patrol it frequently spark tension.
Not five minutes after landing we were on the banks of the Mara River, flanked by 6m-long crocodiles and hundreds of hippos wallowing in the shallows.
The pastime of punting - propelling a long, flat-bottomed boat along the river - is popular in both cities.
Too many people who live in the cities and towns that flank the Mississippi have forgotten that a river as grand and nearly as long as the Nile flows beside them.
And not to serious readers, either, who likely will have long ago floated off the river of content.
Travel up the Columbia River, which has long supplied this area with cheap electrical power, and you can see and hear what's luring students into the energy field.
Elsewhere, waters rushed into two of the four tunnels used by the Long Island Rail Road, Amtrak and NJ Transit under the East River between Manhattan and Queens.
The rig was working on what will be a 25-story building near the East River in Queens' Long Island City neighborhood, behind a large neon Pepsi-Cola sign that serves as a local landmark.
Aside from this jarring image, Tirin Kot is a bucolic-seeming place, a market town of flat-topped adobe houses and little shops on a low bluff on the eastern shore of the Tirinrud River, in a long valley bounded by open desert and jagged, treeless mountains.
Once or twice a week, Siu boarded the public ferry for an hour-long trip across the rolling gray waters of the Pearl River estuary.
Six miles east of Lanercost, I reach the tranquil bend of the River Irthing, where a new bridge carries the long-distance footpath to the hamlet of Willowford.
Luxor lies on the banks of the River Nile in the south of the country, and has long been a popular tourist destination.
The cliffs soar above the long narrow boats that transport goods and people to the outlying settlements along the river, the boatmen navigating treacherous looking rapids with nonchalant ease.
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