A tangled network of rivers, tributaries and canals, the waters of the delta criss-cross the lowlands of southern Vietnam, before emptying out into the South China Sea through mighty, yawning estuaries.
For even as the poisonous oil spreads throughout the arterial system of rivers, tributaries, and canals of the Sundarbans, plans remain underway for the creation of the coal-fueled power plant.
5 Persons in southern Vietnam are recognized as being more independent and having some language differences compared with persons from the north, and the terrain throughout the Mekong delta can be difficult to traverse because of rivers, tributaries, and canal systems.
The Aral Sea's 155-square-mile retreat from its original shoreline is frequently invoked as one of the 20th century's more jaw-dropping ecological catastrophes, a consequence of the Soviet-era policy of diverting the Aral's two main tributary rivers into canals to irrigate cotton plants across Central Asia.
The roads leading off it become soft silt tracks, winding through villages that are strung along the ridges of levees, amid a maze of tributaries and irrigation canals.
The only way to keep going is by boat, over the maze of delta canals and tributaries.
Canals and tributaries cleave away from the lake's eastern embankments like rivulets coursing through dirt, creating easy-to-defend, striplike islands, some of them fringed with marshland.
-What is the water source in question (river, aqueduct, canal, watershed, tributary, reservoir, dam, etc).? How large is the water source, and how large is the area through which the water source flows?
Four drawbridges across the Neva connect the northern and southern parts of the city, while 342 smaller bridges, built over four centuries and made of materials ranging from wood to brick to iron, cross the city's canals and tributaries.
Investigators found that the potential existed for feces to enter the tributary from a drainage canal in the camp and from the open septic disposal pit that was used to handle the waste.
