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Even without climate change, we would have a problem because we're taking more water out than Colorado River could provide, but climate change has made the problem much worse by substantially reducing the flow in Colorado River. – John Fleck	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Even a good monsoon will not alleviate much the large shortfalls in reservoir storage here in the Colorado River Basin, as stream flow is mostly dependent on winter snow pack in the upper portion of Colorado River Basin. – Christopher Castro	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are excited to host the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Lyndhurst, a unique icon of American culture with its park-like landscape and majestic castle overlooking the Hudson River, the wide-open outdoor space at this extraordinary venue allows us to hold a dog show safely while following current social distancing guidelines and public health regulations. – Westminster Kennel Club	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I've never seen people just like in a lazy river in broad daylight, just turning themselves into a border patrol. That's never happened before. Usually, you see footage of border patrol pulling people out of cacti in the dark of night and coming you know, I feel bad for the people coming across but this is a distraction. – Jesse Watters	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Since that time, restoration projects on the Penobscot River and many smaller rivers now allow river herring to access traditional spawning habitat, a result of the restoration activities is the expanding river herring resources we are seeing in Maine today. – Michael Brown	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Right now, the Klamath River is full of dead and dying fish on the Yurok Reservation, this disease will kill most of the baby salmon in the Klamath, which will impact fish runs for many years to come. For salmon people, a juvenile fish kill is an absolute worst-case scenario. – Frankie Myers	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Dear River, because of the life you lived, we have known so much joy, river, because of the life you lived, we laughed a whole lot. – Granger Smith	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Dear River, because of the life you lived, we’ve grown closer to God, and God gave us a miracle. – Granger Smith	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I was watching people dying come across the river, kids in cages – whatever you want to call them. – Caitlyn Jenner	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I am for legal immigration, okay. What's been happening on the border was honestly one of the reasons I decided to run for governor, i was watching people dying come across the river, kids in cages -- whatever Caitlyn Jenners launch want to call them. – Caitlyn Jenners	Found on CNN 2 years ago
People should die of natural causes, not because you're getting an overdose of a knee to someone's neck, not because you're beating somebody to death and dumping them in a river, emmett Till mom said something powerful. Emmett Till mom said,' I want Emmett Till casket to be opened for the world to see what they have did to my son.' Do you know how hard it is for somebody to look at their child beaten to death ? Do you know how hard it is for people to look at a person who has been tortured to death over nine minutes ? It's not right. – George Floyd	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We're now seeing the model for what the future of Colorado River Basin water use looks like, where scarcity is the norm and drought is not some special short-term thing, this is the way of life we're in now with climate change reducing the flow on Colorado River. – John Fleck	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The stench was crazy, just terrible, we’re just going into our round-robin of endless openings and closures because of the residual sewage in the river. – Imperial Beach	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We’re facing a critical choice on the Snake River, we can either stay with the status quo, which means failing salmon runs, more costly litigation, increasing energy insecurity and broken promises to tribes. Or we can choose to invest in salmon recovery and infrastructure solutions that create a future of abundance and prosperity for the region. – Tom Kiernan	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We cannot put tarpaulin over a river. – Garth Saunders	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We are excited to be the first and only city in the Deep South to offer an incentive like this to remote workers, our warm and friendly people, the( Mississippi) river at our feet, our history and our beautiful sunsets make Natchez a great city to call home. – Dan Gibson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Areas to our south -- the lower portions of the upper Mississippi and Illinois River -- are seeing relatively decent flows and levels are good for navigation, especially around St. Louis, but extreme cold outbreaks give us a concern for ice bites, which takes flow out of Illinois River, ice gets created in the pools, we drop a lot of flow, which drops stages and becomes an issue for potential groundings. On the Illinois River, however, with this extreme push of cold air, we could potentially see some ice form, but overall, we're seeing good traffic in St. Louis and believe this year the rivers have been more open with this warmer year. – Justin Palmer	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Look, for once the face of the earth, look, one life in every seed self sacrificed for us, look the sun, shines in us, look the river, flow through us, look the flowers, bloom in our bodies, every fiber and cell of the substances of our bodies vibrating from the birds songs – Alexis karpouzos	added by anonymous 3 years ago
where have you been? I returned to the river, I returned to the mountains. I asked for their hand in marriage again, I begged to wed every object and creature, and when they accepted, then I knew my soul —every soul—then I knew, the souls are drawn from the oceans. – Alexis karpouzos	added by anonymous 3 years ago
From the road Diane McClay-MacGeorge'd be looking down across the water to the property, which will then be backdropped by the trees that surround the natural river and landscape. – Chris MacGeorge	Found on CNN 3 years ago
A much as 80 % of plastic waste in oceans comes from land, every mask or glove that you see on the street that's not picked up will most likely go into a storm drain, into a river then into the ocean. – Chad Nelsen	Found on CNN 3 years ago
She injured her head on a tree, she was very disoriented as a result and thankfully ended up near a water source -- a river bed. She thought her best chance of survival was to stay next to a water source. – Kailey Chambers	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Kids remember throwing sins into the river, or they may not remember anything else but they go to do tashlich -- which is casting their sins -- they remember that, physical rituals really last. – Stacy Stuart	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend the night beside her And you know that she's half crazy But that's why you want to be there – Leonard Cohen	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago

Even without climate change, we would have a problem because we're taking more water out than Colorado River could provide, but climate change has made the problem much worse by substantially reducing the flow in Colorado River.

– John Fleck

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Even a good monsoon will not alleviate much the large shortfalls in reservoir storage here in the Colorado River Basin, as stream flow is mostly dependent on winter snow pack in the upper portion of Colorado River Basin.

– Christopher Castro

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are excited to host the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Lyndhurst, a unique icon of American culture with its park-like landscape and majestic castle overlooking the Hudson River, the wide-open outdoor space at this extraordinary venue allows us to hold a dog show safely while following current social distancing guidelines and public health regulations.

– Westminster Kennel Club

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I've never seen people just like in a lazy river in broad daylight, just turning themselves into a border patrol. That's never happened before. Usually, you see footage of border patrol pulling people out of cacti in the dark of night and coming you know, I feel bad for the people coming across but this is a distraction.

– Jesse Watters

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Since that time, restoration projects on the Penobscot River and many smaller rivers now allow river herring to access traditional spawning habitat, a result of the restoration activities is the expanding river herring resources we are seeing in Maine today.

– Michael Brown

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Right now, the Klamath River is full of dead and dying fish on the Yurok Reservation, this disease will kill most of the baby salmon in the Klamath, which will impact fish runs for many years to come. For salmon people, a juvenile fish kill is an absolute worst-case scenario.

– Frankie Myers

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Dear River, because of the life you lived, we have known so much joy, river, because of the life you lived, we laughed a whole lot.

– Granger Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Dear River, because of the life you lived, we’ve grown closer to God, and God gave us a miracle.

– Granger Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was watching people dying come across the river, kids in cages – whatever you want to call them.

– Caitlyn Jenner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I am for legal immigration, okay. What's been happening on the border was honestly one of the reasons I decided to run for governor, i was watching people dying come across the river, kids in cages -- whatever Caitlyn Jenners launch want to call them.

– Caitlyn Jenners

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People should die of natural causes, not because you're getting an overdose of a knee to someone's neck, not because you're beating somebody to death and dumping them in a river, emmett Till mom said something powerful. Emmett Till mom said,' I want Emmett Till casket to be opened for the world to see what they have did to my son.' Do you know how hard it is for somebody to look at their child beaten to death ? Do you know how hard it is for people to look at a person who has been tortured to death over nine minutes ? It's not right.

– George Floyd

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We're now seeing the model for what the future of Colorado River Basin water use looks like, where scarcity is the norm and drought is not some special short-term thing, this is the way of life we're in now with climate change reducing the flow on Colorado River.

– John Fleck

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The stench was crazy, just terrible, we’re just going into our round-robin of endless openings and closures because of the residual sewage in the river.

– Imperial Beach

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We’re facing a critical choice on the Snake River, we can either stay with the status quo, which means failing salmon runs, more costly litigation, increasing energy insecurity and broken promises to tribes. Or we can choose to invest in salmon recovery and infrastructure solutions that create a future of abundance and prosperity for the region.

– Tom Kiernan

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We cannot put tarpaulin over a river.

– Garth Saunders

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We are excited to be the first and only city in the Deep South to offer an incentive like this to remote workers, our warm and friendly people, the( Mississippi) river at our feet, our history and our beautiful sunsets make Natchez a great city to call home.

– Dan Gibson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Areas to our south -- the lower portions of the upper Mississippi and Illinois River -- are seeing relatively decent flows and levels are good for navigation, especially around St. Louis, but extreme cold outbreaks give us a concern for ice bites, which takes flow out of Illinois River, ice gets created in the pools, we drop a lot of flow, which drops stages and becomes an issue for potential groundings. On the Illinois River, however, with this extreme push of cold air, we could potentially see some ice form, but overall, we're seeing good traffic in St. Louis and believe this year the rivers have been more open with this warmer year.

– Justin Palmer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Look, for once the face of the earth, look, one life in every seed self sacrificed for us, look the sun, shines in us, look the river, flow through us, look the flowers, bloom in our bodies, every fiber and cell of the substances of our bodies vibrating from the birds songs

– Alexis karpouzos

added by anonymous
3 years ago

where have you been? I returned to the river, I returned to the mountains. I asked for their hand in marriage again, I begged to wed every object and creature, and when they accepted, then I knew my soul —every soul—then I knew, the souls are drawn from the oceans.

– Alexis karpouzos

added by anonymous
3 years ago

From the road Diane McClay-MacGeorge'd be looking down across the water to the property, which will then be backdropped by the trees that surround the natural river and landscape.

– Chris MacGeorge

Found on CNN
3 years ago

A much as 80 % of plastic waste in oceans comes from land, every mask or glove that you see on the street that's not picked up will most likely go into a storm drain, into a river then into the ocean.

– Chad Nelsen

Found on CNN
3 years ago

She injured her head on a tree, she was very disoriented as a result and thankfully ended up near a water source -- a river bed. She thought her best chance of survival was to stay next to a water source.

– Kailey Chambers

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Kids remember throwing sins into the river, or they may not remember anything else but they go to do tashlich -- which is casting their sins -- they remember that, physical rituals really last.

– Stacy Stuart

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend the night beside her And you know that she's half crazy But that's why you want to be there

– Leonard Cohen

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

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