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This means that rivers will rise more slowly, but then stay high for much longer, the environmental agency said.

On Sunday, the castle’s owner John Gordon, 76, was forced to move out his property after the River Dee swept away about 60 feet of land, leaving the castle dangerously close to the river, according to the Scottish Daily Record.

In ancient China, they were used to carry ropes across rivers.

You can walk in parks or along a river or in your neighborhood.

Every one of them instinctively heads to the park or the river.

On Sunday, the castle's owner John Gordon, 76, was forced to move out his property after the river Dee swept away about 60 feet of land, leaving the castle dangerously close to the river, according to the Scottish Daily Record.

Unlike developed cities, however, these areas lack advanced water-treatment facilities, and rivers effectively become sewers .

Rivers and lakes nearby will gradually become contaminated.

Most of these operations draw irrigation water from local rivers or lakes.

In some cases, water is so scarce that farmers break open sewage pipes transporting waste to local rivers.

Citizens of wealthy nations demand national parks, clean rivers, clean air and poisonfree food.

Salmon also carry dangerous chemicals as the fish migrate between rivers and the sea.

Some coal power plants in the United States have operated for more than 70 years! The oldest continuously operated commercial hydro-electric plant in the United States is on New York's Hudson River, and it went into commercial service in 1898.

We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys.

We can pollute the air with acids, the rivers with sewage(污水), the seas with oil

Named after a river that passes through the Congo, the Ebola virus originally manifested itself in the interior of Africa in 1976.

A river running through the Congo

By drinking water from the Congo River.

A river that stops moving gets smelly.

At some 1,000 miles, the Mackenzie is the longest river in Canada.

At some 2,300 miles in length, the Mississippi is the longest river in the United States.

The oldest continuously operated commercial hydro-electric plant in the United States is on New York's Hudson river, and it went into commercial service in 1898.

As you can see, it is on the north bank of the river Thames.

Because soaps and other wastes can harm waterways, be careful your washing water doesn't pollute the sea, lakes and rivers.

But the river wasn't changed in a few days or even a few months.

Cities usually have a good reason for being where they are, like a nearby port or river.

Finally, that hard work paid off and now the water in the river is cleaner than ever.

His not-for-profit organization runs 100 river boats that serve as floating libraries, schools, and health clinics, and are equipped with solar panels and other communicating facilities.

I'd skipped nearby Guilin, a dream place for tourists seeking the limestone mountain tops and dark waters of the Li river which are pictured by artists in so many Chinese paintings.

If you swim in a river or lake, be sure to investigate what is below the water surface.

In 1969, the pollution was terrible along the Cuyahoga River, Cleveland, Ohio.

New York City, for example, is near a large harbour at the mouth of the Hudson River.

Now that Chicago's waste water was draining efficiently into the Chicago river, the city's next step was to clean the polluted river.

Now, years later, this river is one of the most outstanding examples of environmental cleanup.

Soon she was at the bridge that crossed the des moines river, a bridge also built of wood, just like the bridge across honey creek.

The only two options were to lower the Chicago river or raise the city.

The river was so polluted that it actually caught fire and burned.

They travelled over snow-covered mountains and sailed hundreds of miles up icy rivers.

While there are amazing stories of instant transformation, for most of us the changes are gradual and require a lot of effort and work, like cleaning up a polluted river.

Without the glaciers, water will arrive in the rivers at times when it can damage crops.