But for the downriver nations, the Mekong is a lifeblood.
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He still lived in River Rouge, a downriver suburb of Detroit.
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The water had taken a few days to make it downriver.
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That collapse tumbled eight miles downriver, reaching speeds of 179 m.p.h.
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People on pleasure boats with life jackets and beer koozies sailed downriver.
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After lunch, we traveled downriver to Edfu, to Egypt's best-preserved temple.
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As was the case downriver, the fish were showing but not biting.
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Eleven days later the raft and the dog were found nine miles downriver.
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"I think it's about 50 meters downriver from its original location," Hill said.
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The shot where the actor journeys downriver was partially captured by a drone.
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Downriver at Alton, high-flood marks adorn white grain silos opposite the tourist centre.
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By Friday morning, stunned officials found that the boat had rolled 160 feet downriver.
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The government approved the decision to relocate the pipeline crossing downriver, by Standing Rock.
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The Guthrie Theater, just over a mile downriver, is a quick Uber ride away.
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So on December 2, the Yacu Kallpa weighed anchor and turned downriver at full speed.
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The goal was to avoid adding to expected downriver flooding problems nearer to the coast.
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A century ago, the Battles of the Somme were fought 20 miles downriver from Amiens.
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Their bodies would be found by a passer-by five miles downriver from the park.
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"For decades, a foot of toxic foam coated the Androscoggin downriver from the mills," he says.
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A little way downriver, a state-owned power utility is building the 13-megawatt Wunonglong dam.
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A folk and blues band was playing its songs, beloved among the city's downriver hipster set.
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My wife and I settled a few miles downriver, and we visit my parents here often.
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In the spring, Guay and Robitaille left Quebec City for Sept-Îles, about 400 miles downriver.
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As they talked, there was the sound of a motor, and a boat appeared, heading downriver.
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It's a balancing act in a congressional district that stretches from liberal Detroit to Trump country downriver.
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The rainfall that Florence dumped on North Carolina has been crawling downriver for more than two weeks.
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"We don't see anything on our water monitors downriver, there are no elevated levels of contaminants," Edwardson said.
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The Boothe slowed to about six miles per hour, and Jimmy turned downriver to meet its starboard side.
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About an hour's boat ride downriver from ATTO is the village of Maracarana, home to about 300 people.
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I thought he minded Huck breaking the fugitive slave law and siding with Jim, going downriver with a runaway.
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Instead, rivers, storm drains, and the inexorable movement of things downriver brings someone's flicked cigarette butt to the beaches.
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Downriver countries intend to build another 11 large dams on the Mekong, with dozens more planned for its tributaries.
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Before he worked up the nerve to ask me in his broken English, I found a tiny studio downriver.
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The concrete bridge connecting the two sides had collapsed and floated downriver in a flash flood triggered by Maria.
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Downriver, as soldiers made a bonfire of several motorcycles they had found, one young man tried to grab his.
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At the moment, No. 52's sister dam downriver, No. 53, is adding 48 more hours to the wait.
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It looked as though it would be fun to bike downriver, then hike to a pond for some trout.
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The striking sense one gets from the Downriver is that even our less-damaged rivers are in bad shape.
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The river churns and the tugs surge forward, faster and faster, their wakes flashing white as they race downriver.
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She ended the night at the Rotarian dinner in Downriver Detroit, the most pro-Trump part of her district.
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The utility did not say if the four reactors at its Tricastin nuclear plant, further downriver, might also be affected.
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One barge ultimately sank at the bridge, another sank about two miles downriver, and the rest were retrieved and secured.
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When a record flood hit in 22019, Ottawa avoided the millions of dollars in damage suffered by communities just downriver.
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Lex and Cooker crawled onto the opposite bank—forty yards across, and another twenty downriver—steaming from exertion and cold.
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Since the Brazilian economy started sinking in 2014, upstream merchandise trade has foundered, even as farm exports downriver have held up.
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The Tonle Sap river is a two-way tributary which joins the Mekong about 800km downriver from Xayaburi, at Phnom Penh.
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Second, dams trap sediment and nutrients, keeping them from traveling downriver to fertile deltas that are home to 500 million people.
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Those dams reduce nutrient-rich sediment that move downriver, allowing farmers to grow crops and affecting fish catches, critics have said.
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"The river would not go away," said Mitch Jurisich, a third-generation oyster farmer in Plaquemines Parish, downriver from New Orleans.
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There was a possibility of renewed attacks from the British, who were still in New York City, about 60 miles downriver.
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Egypt is also concerned about the flow to its own massive dam — the Aswan High Dam — 1,600 miles downriver from Ethiopia's.
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Raheel Siddiqui was born and raised about 2120 miles southwest of Detroit, in the vast suburban-industrial wasteland known as Downriver.
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Though the river may crest Wednesday in the Davenport area, it will rise in the coming days in communities and states downriver.
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"At this time no boats can move downriver and they are starting to hold shipments at port," said chamber manager Guillermo Wade.
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If the water kept rising and the spillway failed to open, the city and the parishes downriver from it would be inundated.
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I reached for it, leaning far out, but the boatman intervened, latching onto the end of it before it could sweep downriver.
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And early last Thursday, the Niobrara River smashed through the nearly century-old Spencer Dam while pushing huge chunks of ice downriver.
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Overnight, the black plastic bag holding the case's key piece of evidence had moved 230 feet downriver, and to the opposite bank.
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Not far downriver from Kisangani's city limits, concrete and brick houses give way to thatched huts and, soon after, to the forest.
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Those carried downriver were wearing life jackets and helmets, but Castro said it was a battle to keep his head above water.
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As the Mississippi swelled with water from the north, everything traveled downriver, keeping the water levels high for months here in the Delta.
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There is no news yet on what the damage or the death toll might look like in Cambodia, downriver of the shattered dam.
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If (when) a wipeout occurs, a surfer might be carried a quarter-mile downriver before reaching a place calm enough to get out.
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Heather Hansman's new book Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West explores the water emergency with remarkable calm and even-handedness.
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He said he realized there was a groundswell of support building after driving south through the Downriver communities on his way to Toledo.
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Bill Murray, obviously, plays the bonhomous Baloo, whose rendition of "The Bare Necessities," as he moseys downriver, feels at once ragged and relaxed.
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People in Diamante, an hour downriver, had reported quiet raids, in which the Mashco came looking for food and for things to steal.
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This was during the No Child Left Behind era, and I worked mainly in River Rouge, a small industrial town downriver of Detroit.
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Walter was a logger and would leave for weeks at a time, working on crews hewing trees and floating them downriver to New Orleans.
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Undetermined exposures could include cases in which, for example, an unreported spill of chemicals or waste products into the Mississippi River causes illness downriver.
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During high water, topsoil, gravel and woody debris are washed into new sites downriver and below ground, fostering new habitats and new plant communities.
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We drove to Rüdesheim am Rhein and, with help from the tourist office, hopped on one of many commuter boats heading downriver toward Koblenz.
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She rejects the company's promise to build reservoirs to replace the lakes that many people downriver rely on for water to irrigate their crops.
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With the fast-moving current, officials said, they were seeking help from officials in Serbia — 111 miles downriver — should anyone have been swept away.
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Amadeo and his family spent grueling days draining rubber from tree trunks and sculpting it into blocks to be sold by the trader downriver.
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But dams are built with specific maximum flow rates because if you let too much water flow through a dam, you can flood areas downriver.
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In four small wooden boats, the forest rangers and Peruvian marines, checking and rechecking their automatic weapons, headed silently downriver toward the illegal gold miners.
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The coastal village of Tyonek lies on Cook Inlet, about 45 miles west of Anchorage, just a few miles downriver from the proposed mine site.
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Our trip started in mid-July at the boat launch in Marble Canyon, a few miles downriver from Glen Canyon Dam, which forms Lake Powell.
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From time to time, he said, officials in Tucupita send boxes of medicine downriver, sometimes with visiting medical students from the Central University of Venezuela.
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Rey was scheduled to lead Mass that evening in Boca de Manú, a village downriver, and I found him there having dinner in a saloon.
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It also started burning excess coke gas from hilltop flares at a downriver plant in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, "for better dispersion" of the sulfur-laden gas.
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Downriver cities such as Tikrit, Samarra, and Baghdad could be inundated with smaller, but still significant levels of flooding within 20133-72 hours of the breach.
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In 1972, they built a floating house of Styrofoam and plywood, where they lived together for a week as they drifted downriver from Kyoto to Osaka.
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If you're lucky, you can make the upriver journey in four weeks and the downriver journey in two, the same amount of time it took Conrad.
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Fishermen are particularly concerned about trains carrying coal, a regular happening that is only set to increase if a controversial coal export terminal is built downriver.
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Henry Halleck, who was an excellent administrator but a terrible field commander, didn't get the bridges downriver in time for the Union to keep the initiative.
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With the river at flood stage in several states, Davenport's flooding could portend what other communities downriver may face in the coming days if barriers don't hold.
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Police said another body found earlier on Monday near a village 115 km downriver from the capital had been identified as the eighth victim of the disaster.
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A parade of ferries, barges and steamboats still battles the surging currents, while islands of vegetation float past, washed downriver from the jungles of the northern provinces.
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Markielau reported he was able to pull his wife out of the water a short distance away downriver, but she had died by then, the troopers said.
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The raft she uses to travel downriver, toward the signal's source, isn't indestructible, and every effort she puts into navigating the game's crunching rapids drains her energy.
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The man, who turns out to be a gold prospector, suggests they use a raft and float the five days downriver to Riberalta, gateway to points beyond.
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Hotel Peter & Paul is a beautiful spot in a great location for exploring New Orleans from a downriver home base, and its Elysian Bar deserves a visit.
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It's her mother's recipe, from the Athabascan village of Ruby, 120 miles downriver, made with yellow cake mix, vanilla instant pudding and a half-cup of Bacardi.
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It's a warm morning, the sky is cloudless and the marshes of the Hoo Peninsula, 218 miles downriver from London, are thick with daises and red clover.
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The reactor, which is just upriver from the ELWR, uses pumped-in water from the Kuryong River as its cold water intake and discharges heated water downriver.
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One large exporter was forced to divert several soybean trains that were slated for loading onto barges at St. Louis to another river elevator further downriver, traders said.
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This fall, delays in moving crops downriver bumped up grain prices at export terminals along the Gulf Coast, opening up an advantage for global competitors such as Brazil.
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The Del Rio Border Patrol Sector's Search, Trauma and Rescue team was sent to the area and located the body of the 10-month-old boy several miles downriver.
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The resulting lake eventually spilled over the top of the dam of debris, weakening it until it collapsed catastrophically, sending a deluge of water downriver and flooding the lowlands.
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The sisters, who were seen roughly between 158th and 163rd Streets, were seated several feet from the river, which could explain why they were found downriver, Chief Shea said.
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Davenport 50 Miles IOWA ILLinois Mississippi River Missouri Clarksville Missouri River St. Louis Valmeyer Prairie du Rocher By The New York Times Three hundred miles downriver, in Valmeyer, Ill.
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WHEN loudspeakers in Kouzi, a village in the eastern province of Shandong, blared out urgent warnings of floodwaters heading downriver towards them, residents were anxious, but they did not panic.
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The latest: Downriver Arkansas communities were preparing Sunday for record-breaking crests, per AP. Flooding caused police to close multiple roads in North Little Rock Sunday night, according to KATV.
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Put a human face on those who go into harm's way to get otherwise unavailable truth and who will be sending their often unhappy news downriver to the White House.
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The wife and 6-year-old child of the man who made the report were later rescued, but the body of his 10-month-old son was found several miles downriver.
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In London, the same wrenching changes hit dock communities along the Thames, as freight moved downriver to the giant container terminals at Tilbury and then Felixstowe that needed far fewer workers.
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After the low dam was completed in 1902, the site was often flooded, so in the 1960s the temple was moved, piece by piece, to higher ground some 500 metres downriver.
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If you get an early boat, you can make at least two pit stops to explore towns or grab some wine, and then keep going downriver on the next scheduled boat.
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Downriver, in northwest Missouri, volunteer crews and emergency workers were racing to build their own makeshift levees out of heaped dirt and sandbags in the hopes of pinning back the floodwaters.
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I know a man in Plaquemines Parish, 60 miles downriver from New Orleans, who after Katrina rebuilt his home 21 feet off the ground, on pilings, to keep above storm surges.
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In a bit of good news, officials at a reservoir upriver of the capitol said Sunday that water levels in the reservoir had stabilized, allowing them to send less water downriver.
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Lake Powell is the gateway that gives the Colorado's upper basin states control of their water, and a way to withhold every drop not required to be sent to the states downriver.
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In one town, residents strung a cable across a river to ford it in knee-deep water because the bridge connecting the two sides had been washed a football field's length downriver.
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian authorities have pulled a body from the Danube river more than 100 kilometers downriver from Budapest, the South Korean embassy's Defense Attache Shun-Keun Song told reporters on Monday.
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The next morning, as we loaded the boat for our trip farther downriver, I learned that a village elder had died suddenly and the gunfire had been part of the mourning process.
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The Klamath had agreements with the downriver tribes — the Karuk, Hoopa and Yurok among them — to let fish pass so that some could swim all the way back to their spawning grounds.
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Nomole, as Torres and his crew called their outpost, was two hours farther downriver: a longhouse, made of crude planks painted green, propped up on stilts on a bluff above the river.
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As we contemplate the hides stretched out to dry, or baled up for shipping downriver, the hunters are suddenly ambushed on every flank by Arikara, who resent the rape of their country.
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A working guest ranch when Véra and Vladimir visited on their butterfly quest, it has since moved downriver and is now the Broken Arrow Ranch, home of the nonprofit City Kids Wilderness Project.
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The Michigan People's Campaign focused on a statehouse district called Downriver Detroit, dispatching campaigners door to door to talk across party lines about issues like caring for the elderly, disabled relatives and children.
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The region's fertile soil depends on nutrient-rich sediment that the Mekong carries downriver, mainly during the rainy season from June to October; more than half the sediment in central Cambodia comes from China.
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Duquesne, Pennsylvania, a town downriver from Pittsburgh, revised their zoning plan a few years go to make it easier to attract microbreweries, and even bought up old abandoned buildings to sell to potential brewers.
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In December, Ohio issued air-emissions and water-discharge permits to PTT Global Chemical of Thailand and its partner, South Korea's Daelim Industrial, for a proposed polyethylene plant in Shadyside, about 80 miles downriver.
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AT HUAY XAI on the Thailand-Laos border, around 1,000km downriver from Mr Guo's house in Cizhong, a sampan's tubercular engine kicks in with a wheeze, a gag and a violent sneeze of black smoke.
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The men sit placidly in the boat as it heads downriver; the first plays a flute, the second (a sailor) grasps the line running to the boom, and the third is a businessman in a suit.
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The destruction is sure to affect the 16,000-acre Jabal Moussa Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO-recognized biosphere a few miles downriver from the dam site that is recognized as a protected forest by the Ministry of Agriculture.
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The EPA draft report says time and nature will take care of the problem, but science shows the PCBs will just float downriver and continue to contaminate the lower Hudson, including the New York-New Jersey harbor.
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Puerto Maldonado was founded by Fitzcarrald, and a main avenue there still bears his name; guides take tourists downriver to view the wreck of the iron boat that is said to have carried him to his death.
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As for Georges, he's used his success on Freret Street to build a unique, two-story Dat Dog on an empty lot where a bar burned down on Frenchmen Street just downriver from New Orleans' historic French Quarter.
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The remaining cranes are in eastern Siberia and spend their winters in southeast China, downriver from the Three Gorges Dam at Poyang Lake, the country's largest freshwater lake, which has experienced periods of extreme drought in recent years.
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According to officials from the Myanmar Fire Service Department responding to the quake, an 18-year-old woman and a 6-year-old girl were killed in a landslide in Yenangyaung, 40 miles downriver from the reported epicenter.
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A no-wake order was issued for a portion of the Illinois River from mile marker 10 to 80.2, and the Coast Guard encouraged shippers moving southbound freight just downriver from St. Louis harbor to daylight hours only.
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The drills would dig into 14 miles of stream and send salmon fleeing one of two ways: upriver, back toward the spawning grounds where they were born, or downriver, toward the ocean where they spend their adult lives.
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The stone structure sits on a corner lot near the terminus of Phipps Avenue, a couple miles downriver from my parents' house in Madison, West Virginia, and right across the street from the old Bank of Danville building.
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Talk to the locals in certain New Orleans neighborhoods — from the historic and genteel Garden District uptown to the dense and increasingly trendy Bywater downriver — and you can be pretty sure that one topic will come up eventually: Airbnb.
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Taylor, a city of some 21220,212016 people, is both the largest and one of the poorest of the Downriver communities: a pocket of mostly white and African-American residents, nearly a quarter of whom live below the poverty line.
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Advocacy groups complain Pruitt ignored scientific reports that showed oil and gas drilling have caused an epidemic of earthquakes in Oklahoma and failed to enforce pollution rules that would have stopped waste from Arkansas chicken farms from floating downriver into Oklahoma.
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When they finally pried Bradley away from the alligator they placed his small body into a canoe, Weidenhamer said, and performed CPR as they raced to get help downriver where an ambulance took Bradley to a helicopter to Jupiter Hospital.
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According to Jacinda Mack, a member of the Secwepemc Nation, located downriver from Mount Polley, the following summer was the first time in thousands of years that native tribes didn't gather sockeye salmon, because of concerns over metal in fish tissue.
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As she looked nervously through the window of one of the wooden shacks on stilts that dominate Riosucio, Quibea recalled the moment she fled to the poverty-stricken town from her hamlet of a few hundred people seven hours downriver.
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They're worried about the path being broken, about connections being severed — how reckless consumerism is changing the climate, how money is corrupting politics, how Big Ag is breaking the food system and flushing poison downriver to the Gulf of Mexico.
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As we traveled downriver the next day, stopping at temples of the crocodile god Sobek and Horus the hawk at Kom Ombo and Edfu, it became somewhat clear how centuries of raids, desecration and time had turned once beautifully adorned monuments into ruins.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Around 60 ships faced delays on Friday near Argentina's grains hub of Rosario after a vessel on the Parana River ran aground and blocked passage downriver towards the Atlantic Ocean, the head of Argentina's Chamber of Port and Maritime Activity said.
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In the popular imagination, the mountains of the Korengal Valley are next to the Tigris and Euphratesrivers, across the street from the tank graveyards of Syria, downriver from the poppy fields of Kabul, and a just a quick drive down the Cairo–Dakar Highway.
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Farther downriver, in the muddy flats at the head of the Elephant Butte Reservoir, in southern New Mexico, the water would neither support their weight nor allow them to paddle, so they devised a method of pushing their boats with their hands and feet while lying on the stern.
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If only to have known then the now: The thesis did not revert, never worked; You did not move Except to the already— And as the prodigy breaks from the pack, Disrupts into the new for just one more Click above the dial, the deal Downriver is how you will get paid, Later, further.
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"The State's presence here is epileptic: There are no public services, there are low levels of education, and the only doctor (in Remolinos, downriver) left a year ago and never returned," says Rodrigo Velaidez, an agronomist who has worked with the area's rural residents since the 90s, when Chocaguán, a National Peace Prize*-winning project that substituted cacao for coca, was in full effect.
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It is among the most expensive industrial production projects ever built along the 981-mile Ohio River and the first sizable new factory on the Ohio since North American Stainless opened its metal manufacturing operation in 1992, downriver in Ghent, Ky. "We repurposed a previous industrial area, and we created a place with new jobs to take the place of jobs at that old plant," said Hilary Mercer, Shell's vice president for Pennsylvania Chemicals, who is supervising the construction.
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