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...Addis Ababa, and author of three books on the Nile. "The question is what way we go." For centuries, suspicion and mistrust have flowed as freely as water in the Nile. So dependent is Egypt on the river that rulers since the Pharaohs have regularly cajoled and threatened upstream nations to ensure that their tampering did not leave Egyptians dry and hungry. In 1270, the Orthodox Church in Cairo exercised its control over Ethiopia and the Blue Nile by refusing to send a bishop to anoint an Ethiopian King. In the 20th century, Egypt signed a treaty with Britain that...
...Marc Goddard, former world rafting champion and owner of Bio Bio Expeditions in California, www.bbxrafting.com, has rafted on the Zambezi every year since 1989. He says that, due to the river's special hydrotopographical features, "if you use your fins to face upstream at the right moment on a standing wave, you can stay there forever." Just save plenty of energy for the 250-m vertical climbs out of the gorge on handmade bamboo ladders that punctuate the rock face along...
...almost always followed by a calm pool." Marc Goddard, former world rafting champion and owner of Bio Bio Expeditions in California, www.bbxrafting.com, has rafted on the Zambezi every year since 1989. He says that, due to the river's special hydrotopographical features, "if you use your fins to face upstream at the right moment on a standing wave, you can stay there forever." Just save plenty of energy for the 250-m vertical climbs out of the gorge on handmade bamboo ladders that punctuate the rock face along the way. Bangs remembers the pioneering days of the late '70s when...
...Zhang continued by saying that at 5 p.m. on November 21, he contacted his immediate boss, the province's Communist Party Secretary, Song Fatang. From 11:30 p.m. to 2 a.m., both men again reported to the State Council in Beijing. They requested that an upstream reservoir be opened to dilute the scum floating down the river, asked that a group of water-safety experts be dispatched, and informed Beijing that they would turn off the water the next...
...explosion upstream had occurred at the Jilin Petrochemical Company, which is owned by the state-run China National Petroleum Corporation. It has not been revealed what contaminants might have entered the Songhua River. According to Chinese media reports, the plant produced aniline, which is used to make dye, fungicide and shoe polish. The Illinois-based National Safety Council considers it an "extremely hazardous substance." In small doses it causes lethargy, while larger doses can cause coma...