There are times and places where the river and the road battle it out and the river wins.
Several thousand people have been moved from areas at risk in Beni, where the River Mamore has broken its banks.
In Shrewsbury, extra defences are being put up near Theatre Severn, where the river was due to peak on Tuesday night.
The force of the current where the river ran faster almost knocked her off balance, though it looked lazy on the surface.
Key river defences are already nearing completion at The Wicker and Nursery Street in Sheffield, where the river Don broke its banks in 2007.
We stole down some of the San Juan's narrowest veins, where the river felt more like a flooded forest and palm fronds hung low over their reflections.
Much of Dublin's early history is as murky as the peaty basin where the River Liffey joined the now-underground River Poddle, near the site of what is today the Dublin Castle gardens.
In places, even its primeval marrow juts out: where the river flattens we slide evenly past eerie, vertical folds of Vishnu schist, which our guides tell us whistle when the wind blows through its billion-year-old fins.
We scrambled on and found ourselves on flat rocks at the place where the small river through the forest disappeared over the edge.
The paper reported the combined ashes would be spread over where the Colorado River and the Little Colorado River merge in the Grand Canyon.
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The bustling seaport of Freemantle lies 19km south-west of Perth where the Swan River meets the Indian Ocean and its historic heritage is clear for all to see.
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Macau sits on a horn of rocky coastline, where the Pearl River washes into the South China Sea.
The one place, apart from Pristina, where Serbs have remained in significant numbers is the mining town of Mitrovica, part of the French sector in the north, where the Ibar river has become the dividing line in an ugly stand-off.
And rowers fear the project may imperil a leading regatta site where the smooth river is straight and the winds gentle.
Flooding was seen as far south as Fort Myers, where the Caloosahatchee River overflowed its banks into the downtown area.
The town of Gympie has been cut off and dozens of businesses are underwater, ABC News reports, while hundreds of homes are threatened in Ipswich, where the Bremer River is expected to peak later in the day.
In fact, just upstream from where the Detroit River International Crossing is to be built, stands the Ambassador Bridge completed in 1929.
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In Hindu cosmology, this is the area where Shiva first set foot on earth, where the Ganges River begins.
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The National Guard worked around the clock to construct a flood barrier in Morgan City, Louisiana, where the Atchafalaya River was already 3.15 feet above flood stage, according to the National Weather Service.
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After all, it is one that was introduced in the United States into the Mississippi River near Mississippi, and has managed to swim upstream all the way across our country to the point where that river meets up with the Illinois River.
On Dangar Island, located near the mouth of the river where the Hawkesbury meets the Tasman Sea, there are no cars.
Farther south, where the Mississippi River has not yet crested, residents were working to clear out their homes and find ways to get by.
Farther south, where the Mississippi River has not yet crested, residents were working Wednesday to clear out their homes and find ways to get by for coming weeks on higher ground.
The Environment Agency has issued an alert for the River Douglas from Parbold to where it merges with the River Ribble including Rufford, Mawdesley, Hesketh and Longton and the Crossens area which includes Ormskirk to Southport including, Banks, Birkdale, Brown Edge, Mere Brow and Scarisbrick.
Jacob, the romantic inn overlooking the Elbe River where the event was held, are sponsors of the event that celebrated its 10th anniversary.
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For the past three years, the group has visited Memphis, Tennessee, each spring to help clean up a harbor on the Mississippi River where the waters are thick with debris.
The Otters and Rivers Projects aims by 2003 to have otter populations return to all of the river systems where the creatures have been recorded since 1960.
Det Supt Sukhbir Singh told the inquest a small part of her spine was found in the same stretch of the river as where the remains of Ms Blamires were discovered.
His father died in September 2004, and Manglik attended the funeral, watching his dad's ashes sink into the same stretch of river where the elder Manglik had swum as a boy.
And he roams the badlands of the central Australian bush, where the red gums wait for the river to flood before releasing their seeds to be carried away and germinate downstream.
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