Pittsburgh is located in western Pennsylvania in the area where three rivers meet the Allegheny, the Monongahela and the Ohio.

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But it has many different areas of interest to visitors who like to hike,camp,climb rocks, raft in rivers,fish and hunt.

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In the summer, people go there to ride horses, climb mountains, catch fish and take trips on the rivers and lakes.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

Almost sixty percent of the world's freshwater withdrawals from rivers, lakes and other water resources go toward irrigating fields.

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Mining of coal and logging of the forests became major industries as transportation improved on the rivers and railroads were built.

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Rivers on the east side of the Potomac Highlands flow into the Potomac River and continue on toward the Atlantic Ocean.

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And they say band leader Rivers Cuomo still writes fresh and funny songs seventeen years after the band started.

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It is in a beautiful area of the Blue Ridge Mountains where the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers come together.

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Instead,you should use sand from rivers or from other areas of land that are not near the sea.

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We stopped in the afternoons to fish for a few minutes in little rivers turned black by the acid of cypress trees.

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These parks include huge colored rock formations, rivers,waterfalls,beautiful trees, other plants and many different kinds of wild animals.

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The rock formations there are the result of deposits made by ancient lakes and rivers over a period of about twenty million years.

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At the center of the park are two deep canyons carved by the Green and Colorado Rivers.

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Senator Nelson knew there was growing public concern about the country's polluted air, rivers and land.

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The rivers carried dirt and pieces of stone that slowly ate away at the surrounding rock.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

Up in the mountains are clear lakes, quick-moving small rivers, and huge formations of rock.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

The many pins take the shape of one of the longest rivers in the world.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

Like to fish? Alaska has more than three thousand rivers and three million lakes.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

In the rivers you're not safe. If you don't bother them,they don't bother you.

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The Valley Heads Moraine prevented old rivers from flowing south, as they had before.

VOA: special.2009.01.05