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  River article - River Murray River Australia Australia waterway streams stream creek - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A river conducts water by constantly flowing perpendicular to the elevation curve of its bed, thereby converting the positional energy of the water into kinetic energy.
Rivers begin at their source in higher ground, either rising from a spring, forming from glacial meltwater, flowing from a body of water such as a lake, or simply from damp, boggy places where the soil is waterlogged.
River management is an ongoing activity as rivers tend to 'undo' the modifications made by man. Dredged channels silt up, sluice mechanisms deteriorate with age, levees and dams may suffer seepage or catastrophic failure.
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 River: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Passage via a river is the usual way rainfall finds its way to an ocean or other large body of water such as a lake.
Erosion caused by rivers often cause them to develop deltas at their mouths, consisting of mazes of river arms and islands made up of the silt deposited as the river loses speed, eventually fading into the ocean or lake.
Human pollution of rivers is very common, and very few rivers in the world today are clean of artificial substances.
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 Talk:List of New Jersey rivers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One way to see what's out there is to browse by category, and then drill down to the categories of, then in the Category of, you'll find an article, River, which has a comprehensive list of rivers of the Americas.
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
The xxx River is a tributary of the yyy River, in northern/southern New Jersey in the U.S. Short description of the river:
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 List of rivers of the Americas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This list of rivers of the Americas includes all the major rivers of the Americas.
Anacostia River - District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia
List of rivers in Central American and the Caribbean
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 River Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The lower end of a river is its base level, commonly called its mouth, a river typically widens at its end and forms what is known as a delta or estuary.
Starting at the mouth of the river and following it upstream as it branches again and again the resulting river network forms a dendritic (tree-like) structure that is an example of a natural random fractal.
Meuse - principal river of the southern provinces of the Netherlands and eastern Belgium.
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 List of rivers of Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These are the main rivers of Europe (ecologically, the extreme west of the Palearctic ecozone - which includes Russia in the east).
Rivers that flow into other rivers are in the orographic order, i.e., by the proximity of their points of confluence to the sea.
The rivers are sorted from west (Tarifa) to east (Reggio Calabria).
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 Roe River Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Rivers whose mouths are in saline tidal waters may form estuaryestuaries.
Rivers begin at their source in higher ground, either rising from a spring (water)spring, forming from glacierglacial meltwater, flowing from a body of water such as a lake, or simply from damp, bogboggy places where the soil is waterlogged.
Rivers may be crossed by ford (river)fords, bridges, ferryferries or tunnels.
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Rivers that carry large amounts of sediment develop conspicuous deltass at their mouths.
Where a river descends quickly over sloped topography, rapids with whitewater or even waterfallss occur.
They end at their sink where they flow into a larger body of water, the sea, a lake, or as a tributary to another (usually larger) river.
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 List of rivers of Europe - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Rivers that flow into other rivers are sorted by the proximity of their points of confluence to the sea.
Rivers of Kazakhstan (the western portion is in Europe, this list includes the Asian ones).
Rivers of Turkey (rivers of eastern Thrace are in Europe, this list includes Asian ones)
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 Encyclopedia: List of rivers by continent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This is a list of rivers of Africa.
This is a list of rivers of Australia.
Categories: Lists of rivers This is a list of rivers which appear in J. Tolkiens fictional universe of Middle-earth and Númenor.
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 The Rivers Foundation of the Americas - Promoting Clean Water, Biodiversity, and Human Health
The Rivers Foundation of the Americas is a public operating foundation dedicated to promoting and funding the conservation, protection and restoration of rivers and their watersheds throughout the Americas.
The Copper River Delta has the largest concentration of nesting shorebirds in North America, is an important nursery for prized salmon and other fisheries, and is a relatively unspoiled wilderness area with keystone predators including wolves and grizzlies.
The Rivers Foundation of the Americas is a public foundation dedicated to promoting and funding the protection and restoration of rivers in the Americas.
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 peace river information
- The river channel may be dredged to make it deeper for navigation or to prevent flooding.
- Lena - principal river of northeastern Siberia
- The River in the Riverworld novels of Philip José Farmer.
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 Talk:Salton Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Also, I don't know if there are any rivers that naturally flow into the salton sea (I guess there aren't), but any artificial inflows should be added to List of rivers of the Americas by coastline's "inland basins" section.
Local communities added and linked to, most of which are just census data stubs and should be fleshed out at some point, with links back to the Sea.
Local river basin has been described, and some of the overall information on desalination efforts was added.
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 Worldworx Travel - Safety - Americas - Costa Rica
Others have died trying to reach the mouths of active volcanoes after being assured by tour guides that this dangerous activity is safe.
A list of local doctors and medical facilities can be found at the website of the U.S. Embassy in San Jose, at http://usembassy.or.cr.
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 The Ultimate Uruguay River - American History Information Guide and Reference
The Uruguay River (Spanish: Rio Uruguay) is a river in South America.
It forms, with the Parana River, the River Plate estuary.
The original name is in Guaraní language and it means "river of the painted birds".
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Rivers in the United States is a list of rivers in the
Boulder River - Montana (tributary of the Jefferson River)
Joseph River (Maumee River) - Michigan, Ohio, Indiana
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 CNN.com - Nature - Alabama sturgeon joins America's most endangered - May 8, 2000
Most biologists blame overfishing and destruction of suitable river habitat for the sharp decline of the species.
The listing under the Endangered Species Act will protect the Alabama sturgeon from killing, harming, harassing, possessing, or removing the species from the wild.
Of more than 4,000 public comments that were submitted on the March 1999 proposal to list the sturgeon, opposition to the action reflected three areas of concern: economic impact, overprotection of the fish and lack of conclusive data on the status of the species.
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 List of rivers in the Great Basin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of rivers in the enclosed Great Basin of North America.
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
Bear River - Great Salt Lake (Utah, Wyoming, Idaho)
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 Spanish and Portuguse Colonial Possessions
In Central America, there was indeed a written language, originated by perhaps the greatest civilization of the Americas, that of the Maya.
The racial hierarchy in Spanish America is noteworthy.
The greatest rivers of the Americas, like the Amazon or the Mississippi, are not in the kinds of environments, arid or semi-arid, where the Old World civilizations began (Tigris-Euphrates, Nile, Indus, Huang He).
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 Salton Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Sea is fed by the New, Whitewater, and Alamo rivers, as well as a number of minor agricultural drainage paths and creeks.
The current water body was created in 1905 when heavy rainfall caused the Colorado River to swell and eventually breach an Imperial Valley dike.
It took nearly two years to finally control the Colorado River’s flow into the Salton Sink and stop the flooding.
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 List of Yukon rivers - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
List of Yukon rivers - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
See List of rivers in Canada, Rivers of the Americas
The article about List of Yukon rivers contains information related to List of Yukon rivers.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/List_of_Yukon_rivers   (60 words)

  
 Alphabetical list of rivers in Canada - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Alphabetical list of rivers in Newfoundland and Labrador
Alphabetical list of rivers in Prince Edward Island
See Also, List of rivers in Canada, Rivers of the World, Rivers of Africa, Rivers of Europe, Rivers of the Americas, Alphabetical list of rivers in Africa, Alphabetical list of rivers in Europe, Alphabetical list of rivers in the Americas
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 NRDC Press Archive: NRDC's 2005 BioGems: Twelve Most Threatened Wildlands in the Americas
NRDC added two new BioGems in Latin America to its list to protect threatened marine mammals and the pristine waters they depend on for survival.
In the Everglades, NRDC is pursuing courtroom action to block a series of massive limestone mines, approved by the Bush administration, that threaten to destroy 30 square miles of critical wildlife habitat and contaminate the drinking water used by 1 million people.
Finally, in South America, NRDC will continue its ongoing campaign to protect Peru's Tahuamanú Rainforest, home to some of the last remaining concentrations of old-growth mahogany trees in Latin America, from illegal logging.
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 List of rivers by continent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of rivers by continent
Note: List of rivers treats North and South America together, but Australia and Oceania separately.
This page was last modified 22:33, 5 October 2005.
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 Encyclopedia: List of rivers in the Great Basin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 List_of_rivers_in_the_United_States
Rivers in the United States is a list of rivers in the United States.
Boulder River - Montana (tributary of the Yellowstone River)
Potomac River - District of Columbia, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia
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