• Ferry accidents are common on Bangladesh's vast river network and scores of people are killed every year.

    BBC: Bangladesh river ferry capsizes in river near Dhaka

  • Last week, officials retrieved nearly 6, 000 pig carcasses from the Huangpu River network.

    BBC: China pig deaths: Toll from Shanghai rivers nears 14,000

  • Images of these rivers were compared with a model developed by Perron of how a river network evolves over time.

    MSN: Saturn's moon Titan may have seen Earth-like erosion

  • Then, in 2004, instead of giving retailers a discount to promote its toothpaste and deodorant, the company offered them a 15% discount if they promoted the River Network in May and June and became members of the network chapters in their areas.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Example: In 2003 Tom's of Maine began donating to the Oregon-based River Network, a nonprofit dedicated to making the public aware that 50% of America's drinking water comes from rivers, and yet 40% of all rivers, lakes and estuaries are too dirty even for fishing or swimming.

    FORBES: A River Runs Through It

  • Some boosters want a cross-river tram network, which would end by Rye Lane and make up for the Tube's almost-total bypassing of south-east London.

    ECONOMIST: Why I love Peckham

  • The first cholera cases appeared near the base, and the bacteria a South Asian strain quickly spread along the river and its network of canals, which Haitians use for bathing, drinking, irrigating crops and washing clothes.

    ECONOMIST: The UN in Haiti

  • Yes, it also operates Mississippi River barges and a network of rural grain elevators, and it makes staples yawn from things like peanuts and the seed of the oil palm.

    FORBES: ADM Should Pop Again If Lawmakers Renew Ethanol Producer Tax Credits

  • "It's tremendous news for us because it means this is one step further on restoring the canal to link up with the national network and the River Wey navigation in Guildford, Surrey, " she said.

    BBC: Wey and Arun Canal restoration: Boats back in Surrey

  • There are guided tours available of his sumptuous, Moorish-style house that overlooks the Hudson River, and there is a network of trails and pathways to explore the 250-acre estate.

    BBC: Quirky culture, north of NYC

  • Yorkshire Water says river water is getting into its sewer network, causing it to overload.

    BBC: UK floods: Disruption threat receding

  • The project, to be carried out by United Utilities, aims to upgrade the sewer network and improve the water quality of the River Lune.

    BBC: Lancaster ?18m sewer upgrade meeting held

  • Regarding cooperation in international river basins, both Le Duc Trung (Mekong River Commission Secretariat) and Jean-Francois Donzier (International Network of Basin Organizations - INBO) stressed the importance of securing national and international political will for the sustainable management of transboundary river basins and transboundary aquifer systems.

    UNESCO: NATURAL SCIENCES

  • And Carney has access to several VC funds as an investor including Charles River Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Northbridge Venture Partners, and Webb Investment Network (WIN).

    FORBES: Lloyd Carney's Profitable Journey from Jamaica to Palo Alto

  • The jeeps travel on rudimentary dirt tracks (built to access Tahiti's network of hydroelectric stations) and skirt sheer drops overlooking vast river valleys while going up hills so steep you feel like gravity is no longer on your side.

    BBC: Five ways to experience Tahiti's waterfall valleys

  • The group Wadebridge Renewable Energy Network (WREN) has been investigating harnessing energy from the Camel river.

    BBC: Project aims to harness Camel river tidal energy

  • "Each network doesn't have to have its own man or woman on the scene at every river that overflows its banks, every border where there's a skirmish, every town up and down the coast battening down for a hurricane, " Hewitt said Thursday at the Frank Gannett Lecture series at the Freedom Forum.

    CNN: Showbuzz

  • Guido Gelli, director of science at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, told the Brazilian network TV Globo that today it could already be considered as a fact that the Amazon was the longest river in the world.

    BBC: NEWS | Americas | Amazon river 'longer than Nile'

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