They redoubled national efforts, inaugurating the Delta Works project that dammed two major waterways and produced the Maeslantkering — the giant sea gate, completed in 1997, keeping open the immense waterway that services the entire port of Rotterdam.
The reprieve for the pristine Nu river - one of only two major waterways left undammed in China - may prove temporary, however, as few details have been made public about Beijing's change of tack.
He will see China's two major waterways, the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers, and arrive at the Vietnamese border south of Guilin, a city revered among the Chinese for its mountainous landscape.
Cairo was near the point where four major strategic waterways — the Ohio, Mississippi, Tennessee and Cumberland rivers — joined to flow southward.
The center, a new central control unit, is studded with computers flashing real-time data about water levels, wind strength and other potential threats to levees built to hold in check the North Sea, the Rhine River and three other major waterways that flow through the Netherlands.
Except for Hungarian, which moved westward across the steppes, the Finno-Ugric languages form two chains distributed along major waterways, with the confluence of the Kama and Volga at their centre.
Pesticides are sprayed next to schools, hospitals, neighborhoods and major waterways, with zero buffer zone and zero public knowledge of what is being sprayed and when it will happen.
A week before that, I was in the Himalayas and India, where we have seven Waterkeeper organizations protecting the major waterways that supply water to 40% of the planet.
About 140 miles long, the San Saba is not considered one of the state's major waterways, but it illustrates — in a state still dealing with a serious drought — the sensitivities surrounding the use of a limited resource.
The Colombian 90th Marine Battalion, to which Lieutenant Arenas, 28, and his teenage soldiers belong, patrols more than 1,500 miles of waterways in a network of four major rivers with barely 1,000 men and a handful of boats.
