Estuary: mouth of a river, where fresh river water mixes with the seawater.
More than four-fifths of the river water taken from the Murray-Darling basin is used for agriculture.
Well, apparently you should also avoid snorting a gallon of bacteria-laden Costa Rican river water.
Further complicating the matter is the use of river water upstream for agricultural irrigation.
Yorkshire Water says river water is getting into its sewer network, causing it to overload.
So perhaps the residents of Knighton should continue to keep a nervous eye on the river water.
When it comes to Colorado river water, it is high time the rules of the game were changed.
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"It works on Boston Harbor water, on Charles River water, anything, " says Metcalfe.
The rain and river water in the city state's reservoirs is being mixed with recycled waste-water from air-conditioners, sinks and toilets.
After bathing at sangam, people fill up plastic bottles, jars, and pots with the river water to take it home with them.
But there is some concern that the river water is too polluted.
One being tested at Victoria station pumps river water through heat exchangers.
Asana, daughter of Ya Namina, my grandfather's senior wife: a magnificent hauteur flowed like river water from the mother's veins through the daughter's.
The entire sub-district of Sujawal was severely hit during the floods in 2010 and the town itself was completely evacuated as the river water started surging to the town.
Spain's oldest nuclear power station - the Santa Maria de Garona plant - was shut down on Sunday because the Ebro river water became too hot to cool its reactor.
Its sweltering citizens rushed for the beaches, its forests burned and some of its nuclear plants had to be closed down because the river water to cool them was insufficient.
Related problems were evidenced by the closures of central power plants across Europe during the heat wave of 2003 because river water temperatures rose to levels where cooling was not possible or environmentally acceptable.
In what has come to be known as the Pachang Creek incident, four workers were swept away by raging torrents of river water in late July while rescuers from the army and police argued over who had the proper jurisdiction.
In a cover letter, NMFS regional administrator John Bullard cautioned that the study applies only to the way the Indian Point reactors currently operate, using the screens to block fish from being drawn into the plant with the millions of gallons of river water used for cooling.
What we can do for them is send them a pack of information which tells them how they can prepare for flooding, what to do in the event of flooding and how to recover from flooding because there are some very simple precautions that they should be taking because floodwater isn't just river water, it can be contaminated.
Already in the planning stages: a 37-km tunnel to channel water from the Benus river in water-rich Pahang state to drought-stricken Selangor state, and a pipe to link the Gombak river in KL to the Wangsa Maju water treatment plant.
Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 3, 2008.
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Its Ohio River basin water-quality trading project will allow those facing high pollution-control costs to buy reduction credits from those whose costs are lower.
Regulations to protect smelt from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta water pumps have created a California water shortage, which is particularly acute in the Valley.
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The District on Apache, a 1, 200-bed student-housing community set to open within walking distance of Arizona State next year, will feature an oversize outdoor movie screen, steam rooms and a 300-foot-long "lazy river" water feature, according to architect Mark Humphreys, whose firm designed University House.
The city imports 90 percent of its water from the Colorado River and the state water project.
"I'm not controlled by anybody, " he told the meeting, arguing that as mayor he would do far more to promote the town, putting river buses and more water sports on the river.
But a partnership among The Nature Conservancy, the University of Georgia and the Flint River Soil and Water Conservation District are working to bring down the cost for Flint River farmers by supplementing their contributions with a variety of grants and federal funding sources, including the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
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But they said water from the river was safe, with water quality meeting government-set standards.
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