Thousands of rivers flow into the sea.

千万万的河流流注大海。

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Melting snow and new snowfall in the midwest states of Iowa, Michigan and Indiana have driven rivers over their banks and have cut off electricity to thousands of customers.

美国中西部的爱荷华州、密歇根州和印第安纳州正在融化的积雪和新下的雪已经使河水漫过河岸，并切断了数千名用户的电力供应。

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"The rivers and the forests have a moral right to continue to exist as they have for thousands of years," he said.

他说，这里的河流和森林有权利按照自己生存了数千年的方式继续生存下去。

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Throughout the territory - in the mountains, along the streams and rivers - thousands of people searched for gold.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

Slowly the area became what visitors see today -- a dry land of high flat mesa tops and deep canyons formed through thousands of years by flowing rivers.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

The annual report uses data from thousands of rivers groups, local governments, environmental organizations and citizen watchdogs to identify waterways under imminent threat by dams, industry or development.

CNN: Report lists America's 10 most endangered rivers

The Soviet Union promised to divert rivers thousands of miles from Siberia to feed the receding sea, but the plans were never realised.

BBC: The Aral Sea crisis

The University of Reading says it is coming in the form of atmospheric rivers - narrow bands of atmospheric moisture, thousands of kilometres long, transported by the wind.

BBC: Floods: how much can new barriers help?