river

From a single person's perspective: it is expensive to fly from winnemucca,nv to say green river, ut.

Stupid example: You are with a group of people, and wonder if it is safe to swim in this river.

Seems much easier than to try and fish old, rusty typefaces out of a river and then try to reconstruct them.

It's used so heavily, that the river does not run to the ocean any more and the resevoirs we've been using the river to fill up are at historical lows.

I assume the value comes from not having to work by a flaming barrel down by the river.

Also, euthanasia is certainly not preventable (I think of a certain gentleman that took the bottom of the river approach).

That's reduced the number of river drownings significantly in recent years.

They would send weighted 'bodies' down the river to see if we rescued them.

I recently read about a project in the Hudson Valley, where United Water would use desalination to draw water from the Hudson river.

…[A]ny argument that tries to put a moral dam in front of a technological river is doomed.

I'm not sure about the Mississippi, Columbia, or Colorado river systems).

So, yes, it costs more to the residents of San Diego, but it's not a bad option when you consider all the people and wildlife that could be using the Colorado river.

They're called, "Reservoirs": Consider the Colorado River, where rain and snow runoff from mountains is diverted from that river and used for such things as agriculture.

It wasn't a training mission; the helicopter was "headed to Red River to check maintenance on equipment".

Every time i asked them which river and where, the answer was "Can't say".

The sentence about the burritos "[tracing] graceful arcs into the East River, glowing like faint red sparks in the night" will stay in my heart for a long time.

Families ride it from Winnemucca, NV to Green River, UT.