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    Project help many people out with business and to stop floods from coming. Even though it help people businesses it also hurt people that depend on the river such as steamboats. Also since they built the Hoover Dam it took some water from Mexico to distribute more water to the U.S. So people that live in San Luis get less water from the Colorado River. It cost so much money to build the Dam but we have payed post of it all. Technology had a major impact on success of Yuma county. It had such a big impact

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    Flooding in Bangladesh

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    land of the total area is less than 1 metre above sea level • The total annual rain falls in the summer of Dhaka is almost 2000mm • Rivers lakes and swamps cover more than 10% of the land area • Snow melts in the Himalayas in the summer‚making the river ganges flood. Additionally‚ Most of the country is delta and flood plain‚ landforms formed by regular river floods. The amount of surface water makes them tough environments for populace‚ but at the same time they are also appealing because of

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    District particularly in our area who are living near the riverbank or one of the low lying villages in the city‚ which is 3rd class city in the province of Surigao del Sur‚ Mindanao that had always been experiencing floods due to the rising of the river waters in that area. It has been‚ observed that even just a slight rain fall; flood occurs and brings devastation to the houses‚ and to the people especially rainy seasons. As one of the resident of our Purok‚ I already witnessed how my neighbors suffered

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    On April 30‚ 1812 the great state Louisiana was founded‚ also known as “The Gumbo Pot”. Tourists visit Louisiana a lot based off of many thigs including; its cultures‚ food‚ and traditions. However ‚ a little known fact is that the state is being washed away by 30 football fields of land each day and soon the state is predicted to be gone‚ actions and precautions are taken we can stop the disaster from happening. Coastal erosion in Louisiana is the process of steady depletion of wetlands‚ along

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    Home on the Mississippi

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    piece of Stewarts’.  This asymmetrical painting is set somewhere close to the 1800’s turn of the century into the 1900’s along the Mississippi River.  Set off Latch Island‚ north of Winona is the once authentic landscape of a rundown boathouse built next to a majestic bridge crossing the river. The homely boathouse that is situated on the edge of the river almost directly under a then futuristic industrial bridge is one of several up and down the waterway that people lived in year round due to hard

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    eventually became rivers and to oceans. It is the most distributed substance on our planet‚ and in different amounts it is available everywhere and plays a major role in human life. Of most importance is fresh water. No activities of human being and life is impossible without it because it can be substituted by nothing. In different histories‚ water has been a facet of ritual. Civilizations have emerged in different countries. The Chinese civilization originated in the Yellow River (Huang Ho) and

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    High Bridge Power Plant

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    in May 2008. (High Bridge Generating Station) One interesting feature about the location is that High Bridge gets its name from the bridge that crosses the Mississippi River just yards from the plant. The plant site once was home to early residents of St. Paul-many of them immigrants‚ who settled in shantytowns along the river. By converting from coal to natural gas the plant has significantly reduced all air emissions from the plant-particulates by about 92%‚ nitrogen oxide by almost 97%‚ sulfur

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    to protect our planet

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    disappear before 2050. 2. Bangkok‚ Thailand : The location also makes the city exposed to floods‚ especially in the monsoon season. All these factors could send Bangkok underwater before the end of this century. 3. Mississippi River Delta‚ United States The great American river runs into the Gulf of Mexico. The rising of the sea level could destroy this landscape. 4. Komodo Island‚ Indonesia The home of the world’s most famous reptile could end under the water surface in few decades if the Global

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    distance that i could get to higher ground so i could see. It was a two mile hike to the hill but when i got there i could see the Mississippi river so I decided to follow it. It was a couple miles away so it took me an hour to get there. By that time it was around noon I was beginning to get hungry. I decided to stop and try to catch some fish from the river so I jumped in and i saw one i lunged at it and got ahold of its long tail. I brought it to the shores and ate it it tasted very slimey. I decided

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    settlement needs to be close to a reliable source of water. In early days‚ rivers were clean enough to give a safe‚ permanent supply. Dry Point. A site has to be safe from flooding and away from marshy areas. Building Materials. These include stone‚ wood and clay which had to be available. They are usually heavy and hard to move. Defence. Surrounding tribes were often hostile. A good defensive site would be within a river bend or on a hill with steep sides and commanding views. Fuel Supply. A

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