Mr Simplot himself, an avowed lover of skiing, duck shooting and the great outdoors, was attacked in the 1970s for his support for new coal-fired electricity plants along the Snake river and for a scheme to generate hydro-power by diverting water from another river into a vast underground tube.
Residents near where pigs were being pulled from the river went days in January without tap water when a chemical transporter leaked benzene into a Huangpu River tributary.
Residents near where pigs are being pulled from the river went days in January without tap water when a chemical transporter leaked benzene into a Huangpu River tributary.
The water cut a 7-foot-wide path in the hillside below, eventually spilling into a river.
Rain drilling the earth, and the path a river, gathering the water into a torrent that rinsed the chalk white again.
Reno has found the money to spruce up parts of downtown and has turned its river into a white-water canoeing course.
The fast flowing water of the Eisbach ploughs into a deeper section of the river that barely moves at all, creating a consistent, albeit dangerous, wave effect.
China issued a second water-pollution alert within a month, when phenol, a dangerous chemical, leaked into the Yangzi river near Shanghai.
Beautiful Lumangwe, a wide wall of water that thunders into the Kalungwishi River filling the air with fine mist, looks like Victoria Falls in miniature.
Contaminated water from an abandoned mine in mid Cornwall could spill into a nearby river if levels continue to rise, says the Environment Agency.
BBC: Concern contaminated Wheal Jane water may pollute river
It was feared untreated water from Wheal Jane, near Baldhu, could spill into a nearby river if levels continued to rise following the heavy rain.
The international community in the U.S. - one of the things we've seen is the way that the city is flooded is there is some form of machinery, some form of equipment that they could bring in, similar to like FEMA, to help get a lot of the water out of the town and back into the river.
In 1892 an ambitious irrigation engineer and hustler named Charles Robinson Rockwood came up with the first plan to harness the river's wealth, a canal that would funnel water into a dried-out riverbed, irrigating the surrounding desert.
The family of a kayaker who died after getting into difficulties in a swollen river have said he "loved" the water.
Reaching a slipway guarded on their approach by a fence running down into the water, some of the men plunged into the river and began swimming upstream.
Finally, the roar of the Colorado River comes into earshot and a tempestuous rush of mint-green water races through the nadir of the canyon.
Instead, the living roof acts as a natural filtration system, with excess storm water collecting in retention ponds before flowing into the nearby Rouge River.
The jouster, wearing only white clothing (like the rest of the crew), stands on a wooden platform (called a tintaine) that extends off the boat about 3m above the water, carrying a 70cm tall shield and a 2.8m lance with which to knock the opponent into the river or canal below.
The sound of a motor sends carp launching high out of the water at passing boats, sometimes smacking passengers straight into the river.
He said the floodwater had deposited a bank of soil in the channels they had built to take water away from the turbine and back into the River Rea.
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