upriver

That's like arguing that swimming against the current will necessarily move you upriver, without considering how fast you're swimming and how fast the current is.

They spend most of their life in Lake Michigan and then run upriver to feed/spawn depending on the season.

You’d have to go quite far upriver to avoid drinking seawater (since Thames is tidal) even before all the pollution.

I don't mind at all having a nuclear power plant upriver not particularly far from my home.

Trying to convince people that these aren't actually their values is swimming upriver.

The original sars-cov-1 virus emerged at an animal farm upriver from Hong Kong.

Instead, upriver and downriver (Nile) is used, reflecting how they saw the world.

Keep going upriver and you get to DuPont and the Marathon Refinery.

So why didn't Carthage or anyone else just sail upriver (Rome was not on the coast, just to clarify the context) and destroy Rome?

It's about a mile upriver, near the Watergate.

There's a reason we're looking at using old mines for pumped hydro rather than trying to pump water upriver during a spring flood because other power sources have surplus generation.

And, push come to shove, the Colorado River is dammed further upriver than Lake Mead, so, in a sense, the reservoir could be moved out of Nevada.

Isn't this upriver/downriver/elevation terminology just a fancy/ignorant way of saying "topological ordering"?