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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).
ECONOMIST: The unkind child
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Pilgrims believe that by attending the festival and bathing in the waters of the rivers that run through Allahabad or the other host cities, they will cleanse away their sins and bring salvation.
BBC: India hosts the world��s biggest gathering
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Huge quantities of gypsum and chemical fertilisers have been added to the waters of the Marcal and Raba rivers.
BBC: Toxic sludge carpets homes in Hungary
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By means of canals and huge concrete aquaducts, they took the rivers' waters to irrigate vast areas of cotton.
ECONOMIST: Cotton
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Hundreds of people also take boat rides every day into the middle of the waters, where the two rivers meet.
BBC: Kumbh Mela festival
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Experts estimate that 3, 000 Atlantic salmon currently are having difficulty moving up the Ettrick and Yarrow Waters because of an inadequate flow in the rivers.
BBC: Dry weather has made it harder for the fish to move upstream
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For decades, federal law only covered waters deemed navigable under the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899.
WSJ: Federal Offenses: Sewage Blunder Earns Building Engineer a Criminal Record
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The 55-acre South Island parcel sat on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, whose waters come from glacial-melt rivers originating in Fiordland National Park.
FORBES: "We Weren't Hut People"
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"Since the passage of the Clean Water Act, we have stopped billions upon billions of pounds of pollution from flowing into our rivers, our lakes and streams, and we have doubled the number of waters safe for swimming and fishing, " said Gore.
CNN: AllPolitics - Gore Calls On Congress To Bolster Clean Water Act
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Nearly two-fifths of the United States' 25, 000 sewer systems illegally discharged raw sewage or other nasty stuff into rivers or lakes in 2007-09, and over 40% of the country's waters are considered dangerously polluted.
ECONOMIST: It must also be clean