He proudly rattled off his administration's efforts in a year and a half, new housing, development plans along the river and chain restaurants opening.
The Torpoint ferry, which is pulled across the river on chains, is one of the main ways to travel between Devon and Cornwall and was established in 1791.
A string of huge dams and reservoirs now line the Volga and its major tributary, the Kama River, converting them from free-flowing rivers to chains of man-made lakes.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a great number of dams were built along the course of the Missouri, transforming 35 percent of the river into a chain of reservoirs.
The resurgence of the otter, which is top of the food chain in river environments, is an indicator that English rivers are at their healthiest for more than 20 years, according to the Environment Agency.
Starting with the 100,000-square-foot Covington store, in a strip mall across the river from Cincinnati, the chain is redesigning its stores.
The Great Wall of China, the walls of Rome and every medieval city, the Siegfried Line, the Maginot Line, the Atlantic Wall; nations – empires, dictatorships, democracies – have used every mountain chain and river to keep out foreign armies.
At the time of European settlement the river was a summertime chain of waterholes bounded by large gum trees.
In most areas the river is enclosed by chain-link fence, but pocket parks have been created with river rock and native plantings in neighborhoods like the Elysian Valley near Dodger Stadium.
A huge dam above Baton Rouge now chains the river to its current channel so that it won't seek a shortcut to the Gulf of Mexico and leave the city a sea of mud and desolation.
Miners use mercury to process the gold dust, which then pollutes the rivers and the food chain.
