Word: downstreams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thursday, after a week-long struggle to regain territories that U.N. troops had failed to clear of Serb forces, the mines had already been detonated. Gushing water threatened to burst the 210-ft.-high (65-m) structure altogether, washing away the homes of 20,000 people downstream. At week's end Croatian officials were working feverishly to shore it up and drain the reservoir behind...
...They were both in the center no man's area,' moving in opposite directions," said Charles Butt, the varsity lightweight coach. Rules for rowing traffic dictate that boats going upstream must row on one side of the river and boats going downstream on the other...
Actually, Kyzyl is hardly generic. Its Claim to fame is a phallic object commemorating its position as the geographic center of Asia. (Only it isn't; the center is now a couple of miles downstream May be the U.S. had some master plan to blast those crucial points...
...most ferocious enemy of the fish is eight hydroelectric dams on the lower Columbia and Snake rivers that harness water behind massive walls of concrete. On their journey upstream every year, the salmon are aided by fish ladders that allow them to bypass oncoming currents. But the trip downstream from the spawning grounds to the Pacific is a treacherous 1,450-km (900-mile) journey that obliterates up to 11 million juvenile salmon, called smolts, a year. Slack pools created by reservoirs behind the dams have slowed the smolts' traveling time from seven days to six weeks. This increases their...
...Geological Survey. Levees built to protect towns can also restrict river flow, which in turn can force the waterway to crest and wash out the barriers on either bank. Says Robert Cox, Louisiana floodplain administrator: "You don't get rid of the water; you just pass it on downstream to the next...