Weather.com is rigorously tracking river flood stages up and down the Mississippi and its feeder rivers.
He organised a local environmental monitoring group that he called Defenders of Tai Lake, to collect water samples from the lake and its feeder rivers.
His shirt's marine motifs have a grim irony, given the Soviet creation of his doubly landlocked country of Uzbekistan, as well as their diversion of the Aral Sea's feeder rivers for irrigation, causing the world's fourth largest lake to shrink to shallow ponds.
Last year, authorities arrested dozens who rallied to save shrinking Lake Urmia, one of the world's largest salt lakes, now ravaged by drought and the damming of feeder rivers in Iran's northwest.
The floods also buried the village's irrigation canals and feeder rivers under mud.
This is due, in large measure, to the fact that lake water is replenished to varying degrees by feeder-rivers and underground springs.
The heat is up, the water is down and the trout are holding in cooler areas where feeder streams enter the river.
The Bristol Bay watershed, in southwest Alaska, comprises 40,000 square miles of bogs and evergreen forests, rimmed by distant mountains and shimmering with rivers and feeder streams.
The town and its hinterland is part of a feeder route into the Helmand river valley and Lashkar Gar, where young jihadists cut their teeth.
Over time, the river and several feeder streams cut into the rock of this area, forming deep canyons.
