These days, a back-to-the-river movement hopes to reinvigorate the region with boating, fishing and other activities, said David L. Deen, a Democratic state representative who was out rowing recently.
In the 1980s, people displaced by the rivers' movements comprised as much as 40% of the slum-dwelling population of Dhaka.
Just as vegetable gardening introduces the gardener more intimately to the soil and the seasons, crabbing, even for recreation, pulls you more deeply into the life of the river, the movement of tides and closer to the crabs themselves.
"Peronism is like a river in movement, it is the river itself and at the same time it is not the same because it is always in movement," Carlos Corach, a former minister of the interior and close associate of Mr. Menem, said recently.
It takes momentum and patience to form cattle into a steady river of movement, and a weary herd can seem even more stupid than a rested one; now the confused cows milled by the side of the road, started little cattle drives of their own, or turned and headed back for the pasture we'd just removed them from.
When in the paddling channel, the river of movement out sea, you still have to paddle (a lot) out to the break because the paddling channel is not a like a ski lift.
As their bodies intertwine, push, and twist in dappled light, they build mesmerizing rivers of movement and energy.
In places where weirs crossed entire rivers, blocking movement of fish, the owner of a weir would catch as much fish as needed and then open all or part of their weir to allow fish to move on to the next weir (Gunther 1927; Suttles 1955).
The authors estimated that during 2011 0.5% of contaminants in one watershed and 0.3% in the other flowed into these rivers, with movement occurring during precipitation and flooding.
