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We are working jointly with all institutions on the worst-case scenario, which is the breaking of the dam, which would provoke a huge flood in down-river municipalities, that's a catastrophic scenario. – Jorge Londono	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
At present, visitors to Hong Kong from mainland China tend to fly in for one or two days, mostly for shopping, and seldom travel to other areas in the Pearl River Delta. – Marcos Chan	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's still going to be a challenge to win back investors and advisors that went toward lower-cost, more consistent index based strategies, once you've crossed that river, it's hard to come back. – Todd Rosenbluth	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This is in pretty shallow water generally, so there is every chance this is just ‘warm springs’ or seeps of ground water flowing from the mountains inland that make their presence known in this particular area, the other possibility is that warmer water from Beaufort currents or out of the Mackenzie River is finding its way to the surface due to interacting with the bathymetry, just the way some polynyas form. – Chris Shuman	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We certainly would n’t support anything that did n’t include bathrooms and showers, Brooke Weitzman told FOX11. Without those, no one is better off than they were in the river bed. – Irvine Mayor Donald Wagner	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Mayday, mayday, mayday, east River engine failure! – Richard Vance	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I didn’t mean to push him into the river, i meant to push him away. – Mark Daniel Lewis	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We would've all died. Because he was swerving off pretty much into the river and off that hill, too. – Karson Vega	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
More than two new species a week and 2,500 in the past 20 years speaks to how incredibly important Mekong River is to global biodiversity, while the threats to the region are many, these discoveries give us hope that species from the tiger to the turtle will survive. – Stuart Chapman	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
There are a lot of old country cemeteries along the river and historically, in past bad storms such as Hurricane Katrina, caskets and vaults have come up from the ground. – Michael Land	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
To be quenched by this beautiful river that runs through you, all you have to do is turn within – Prem Rawat	added by anonymous 6 years ago
We need a reliable lock and dam infrastructure in order to have reliable river transportation.More than 60 percent of our agricultural exports move on this river, a quarter of the coal we use, a quarter of the petroleum that we use in this country [moves through here.]. – Paul Rhode	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The Riverwalk and Chicago River cleanup have proved what is possible when everyone pulls together, there's still a way to go, but hopefully Chicago will soon be as famous for its livability as its architecture. – David Plascencia	Found on CNN 7 years ago
We had a 20- to 25-foot zone to expand the previous riverside dock and to connect that land under existing bridges, we wanted to give pedestrians a way to travel along the river without needing to cross a street. – Gina Ford	Found on CNN 7 years ago
We wanted to give pedestrians a way to travel along the river without needing to cross a street. – Gina Ford	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I think a good case in point is Seoul, in South Korea -- they actually took out an entire motorway (in the city center) and put the river in there with trees and plants, in Manila, they are establishing miniature parks wherever they can -- crossroads, along the railway, old industrial areas -- there's a lot of urban space that is wasteland, so there are areas that can be converted. – Simone Borelli	Found on CNN 7 years ago
At some point, most of the city was (covered) with water. No power but you can see rivers in every street, i watched people -- some girls coming down the river -- some bodies coming by the water. It was terrible. It was pretty shocking. – Simon Uribe	Found on CNN 7 years ago
At some point, most of the city was colored with water, no power but you can see rivers in every street, i watched people -- some girls coming down the river -- some bodies coming by the water. It was terrible. It was pretty shocking. – Simon Uribe	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I watched people -- some girls coming down the river -- some bodies coming by the water. It was terrible. It was pretty shocking. – Simon Uribe	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Don't temper with a turbulent river, you may never be found to celebrate your victory! – Ashima	added by ashima 7 years ago
Our breasts normally drain fluid, like water flowing through a river, a tumor can almost be like a dam. – Andrea Barrio	Found on CNN 7 years ago
What we discovered was that when the Flint River water went into the system it released a lot of iron, and removed the disinfectant from the water, and in combination, those two factors, the iron as a nutrient and the disinfectant disappearing, allowed legionella to thrive in buildings where it could not do so previously. – Virginia Tech	Found on CNN 7 years ago
The triggering event was very clearly the use of Flint River water without any corrosion control, had the corrosion control been in the water, disinfectant would have been higher, iron would have been lower, probably the outbreak would not have occurred. – Virginia Tech	Found on CNN 7 years ago
It's difficult to do that -- because you're trying to go back in time. whether anyone does that or not, remains to be seen, what our experiment is going to do is show why the Flint river water was growing more legionella. This is the only way you can do that testing becuase that water doesn't exist anymore, we had to recreate it. – Virginia Tech	Found on CNN 7 years ago

We are working jointly with all institutions on the worst-case scenario, which is the breaking of the dam, which would provoke a huge flood in down-river municipalities, that's a catastrophic scenario.

– Jorge Londono

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

At present, visitors to Hong Kong from mainland China tend to fly in for one or two days, mostly for shopping, and seldom travel to other areas in the Pearl River Delta.

– Marcos Chan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's still going to be a challenge to win back investors and advisors that went toward lower-cost, more consistent index based strategies, once you've crossed that river, it's hard to come back.

– Todd Rosenbluth

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This is in pretty shallow water generally, so there is every chance this is just ‘warm springs’ or seeps of ground water flowing from the mountains inland that make their presence known in this particular area, the other possibility is that warmer water from Beaufort currents or out of the Mackenzie River is finding its way to the surface due to interacting with the bathymetry, just the way some polynyas form.

– Chris Shuman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We certainly would n’t support anything that did n’t include bathrooms and showers, Brooke Weitzman told FOX11. Without those, no one is better off than they were in the river bed.

– Irvine Mayor Donald Wagner

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Mayday, mayday, mayday, east River engine failure!

– Richard Vance

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I didn’t mean to push him into the river, i meant to push him away.

– Mark Daniel Lewis

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We would've all died. Because he was swerving off pretty much into the river and off that hill, too.

– Karson Vega

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

More than two new species a week and 2,500 in the past 20 years speaks to how incredibly important Mekong River is to global biodiversity, while the threats to the region are many, these discoveries give us hope that species from the tiger to the turtle will survive.

– Stuart Chapman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

There are a lot of old country cemeteries along the river and historically, in past bad storms such as Hurricane Katrina, caskets and vaults have come up from the ground.

– Michael Land

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

To be quenched by this beautiful river that runs through you, all you have to do is turn within

– Prem Rawat

added by anonymous
6 years ago

We need a reliable lock and dam infrastructure in order to have reliable river transportation.More than 60 percent of our agricultural exports move on this river, a quarter of the coal we use, a quarter of the petroleum that we use in this country [moves through here.].

– Paul Rhode

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The Riverwalk and Chicago River cleanup have proved what is possible when everyone pulls together, there's still a way to go, but hopefully Chicago will soon be as famous for its livability as its architecture.

– David Plascencia

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We had a 20- to 25-foot zone to expand the previous riverside dock and to connect that land under existing bridges, we wanted to give pedestrians a way to travel along the river without needing to cross a street.

– Gina Ford

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We wanted to give pedestrians a way to travel along the river without needing to cross a street.

– Gina Ford

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I think a good case in point is Seoul, in South Korea -- they actually took out an entire motorway (in the city center) and put the river in there with trees and plants, in Manila, they are establishing miniature parks wherever they can -- crossroads, along the railway, old industrial areas -- there's a lot of urban space that is wasteland, so there are areas that can be converted.

– Simone Borelli

Found on CNN
7 years ago

At some point, most of the city was (covered) with water. No power but you can see rivers in every street, i watched people -- some girls coming down the river -- some bodies coming by the water. It was terrible. It was pretty shocking.

– Simon Uribe

Found on CNN
7 years ago

At some point, most of the city was colored with water, no power but you can see rivers in every street, i watched people -- some girls coming down the river -- some bodies coming by the water. It was terrible. It was pretty shocking.

– Simon Uribe

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I watched people -- some girls coming down the river -- some bodies coming by the water. It was terrible. It was pretty shocking.

– Simon Uribe

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Don't temper with a turbulent river, you may never be found to celebrate your victory!

– Ashima

added by ashima
7 years ago

Our breasts normally drain fluid, like water flowing through a river, a tumor can almost be like a dam.

– Andrea Barrio

Found on CNN
7 years ago

What we discovered was that when the Flint River water went into the system it released a lot of iron, and removed the disinfectant from the water, and in combination, those two factors, the iron as a nutrient and the disinfectant disappearing, allowed legionella to thrive in buildings where it could not do so previously.

– Virginia Tech

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The triggering event was very clearly the use of Flint River water without any corrosion control, had the corrosion control been in the water, disinfectant would have been higher, iron would have been lower, probably the outbreak would not have occurred.

– Virginia Tech

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It's difficult to do that -- because you're trying to go back in time. whether anyone does that or not, remains to be seen, what our experiment is going to do is show why the Flint river water was growing more legionella. This is the only way you can do that testing becuase that water doesn't exist anymore, we had to recreate it.

– Virginia Tech

Found on CNN
7 years ago

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