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Edit The Guardian 29 Aug 2016
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Yellow River and Great Wall shake hands here

Edit China Daily 29 Aug 2016
And, just across the river from the Shanxi side, to the north and west, and with the same high, steep loess cliffs, lies the neighboring Inner Mongolia autonomous region, so that Old Cow Village on the Chinese side is the first village that the river enters in Shanxi province. Now, Old Cow Bay is prominent not just for its magnificent view of the mother river way down below as it snakes its way around a large S-shaped bend....

University scouts for places to tap tidal & solar power plants

Edit The Times of India 29 Aug 2016
SPPU signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with K-water for development of tidal and floating power generation projects last week and a panel of experts visited Mumbai to look into the possibility of setting up the first ever tidal river energy plant in India at the Kasheli bridge area along Ulhas River in Thane. The energy director and manager ......

Odisha re-run: Kin wade through river with coffin

Edit The Times of India 29 Aug 2016
Members of a family from a village in Sagar district in Madhya Pradesh waded and swam across a swollen river carrying the body of their daughter in a coffin to the burial ground ... The small village is situated on the bank of river....

City policy causing floods

Edit The Jakarta Post 29 Aug 2016
Saturday’s floods inundated many neighborhoods in the municipality, as residents enjoyed their weekends at home with their families. Entrepreneur Duncan Gray, 42, and his family, for example, had just arrived at his house in South Cipete in the afternoon when the heavens opened ... “We stayed upstairs when the water started flooding our house at around 4.30 p.m.,” he said....

Ganesh Utsav Samiti requests release of water on immersion day

Edit The Times of India 29 Aug 2016
Ganesh Utsav Samiti and Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) want to check immersion of Plaster of Paris (PoP) idols of Lord Ganesh in Tapi river by devouts during the upcoming Ganesh Mahotsav ... We have requested the authorities to release water at the rate of 70,000 cusec from the dam into the river to facilitate idol immersion....

EDITORIAL: Conserve Chure

Edit The Himalayan 29 Aug 2016
The government has allocated budget annually for the protection and conservation of the Chure range that links the Tarai-Madhes the Himalayan range, which is the water tower of the major rivers in Asia ... At the same time, the forest resources available in the Chure range should be preserved in a manner that supports livelihood of the local communities....

Irrigation scheme remains non-starter

Edit The Hindu 29 Aug 2016
While Tamil Nadu’s objection to the Union government nod to conduct an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for a second dam across inter-State Siruvani River in Attappady has opened up another water dispute, a four-decade-old irrigation project mooted by the Kerala government continues to drain the State exchequer. The total cost of the project when it was conceived in the 1970s was estimated at Rs.4.76 crore....

In Fall River, racing boats battle for supremacy on the Taunton River

Edit The Providence Journal 29 Aug 2016
... Offshore Power Boat Association Grand Prix came to Fall River.The competitors included a 42-foot catamaran sponsored by Alex and Ani, driven by Cranston’s Serafino Cazzani and powered by twin 1,500 horsepower turbo engines.The boat took first place in the Extreme division, where boats can race at unlimited speeds with no limits [...]> ......

Pets headed for prison to await owners displaced by Louisiana flood

Edit The Times Picayune 29 Aug 2016
29), per a plan by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry to relocate the pets from the Baton Rouge River Center to Dixon Correctional Institute in Jackson, La., until their owners find stable housing ... A school bus will shuttle residents sheltering at the River Center to the prison, about 45 minutes away, to meet with their furry friends beginning at 9 a.m....

‘Passing Through Pig’s Eye’ is for dance people, and the rest of us, too

Edit Pioneer Press 29 Aug 2016
Peter Street for some quick street-level history lessons and then up to the third floor of the Landmark Center and Courtroom 317, where the company’s look at the past transforms into a projection 100 years into St ... Some stuff will likely turn your individual crank (the big tap number that begins the show and a choreographed dodge-ball fight at ......

Family history month at AIATSIS (AIATSIS - Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Aug 2016
National Family History Month is held in Australia every August, but at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) someone visits to research their own family history nearly every day, says the Family History Unit Manager Narelle Rivers. 'Visitors have often been disconnected from their community, with many affected by the stolen generations,' Ms Rivers said....

Amsterdam Docklands Revive as Bargain Hunters Commute by Water

Edit Bloomberg 29 Aug 2016
The district of Amsterdam Noord is taking off as soaring housing costs across the city and the promise of a new subway line tempt residents to brave the bottlenecked journey across the IJ river in search of better values or lower rents ... Values in the district -- which at 63 square kilometers (25 square miles) is slightly bigger than Manhattan -- could rise by about 10 percent this year, the broker predicts....
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