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Unfortunately, we're starting to look for things we don't want to look for because it's been a week so we're starting to look in the rivers and the swamps, it's been a long week, and you know the crying stopped this morning for a while and it will come back. – Steve Brittain	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Reservoirs in these districts are full. If we get more rainfall, then we have no option but to release water in rivers. – Deepak Mhaiskar	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The very heavy rainfall yesterday and today, combined with saturated soil and very high water levels on many rivers and streams have created dangerous conditions around the state. – Mike Parson	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The soil is saturated with rain and the rivers are already swollen, so the emergency is likely to get worse from flooding in the next few days. – Michel Le Pechoux	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It's already hard to explain rivers or lakes based on the information we have, this makes a difficult problem even more difficult. – Edwin Kite	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Anyone with interests along impacted rivers should monitor closely/take action. – The National Weather Service	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We've had a very cold winter, the ground is frozen, there's currently between 8 inches to a foot of snow melting, followed by rains and additional snow. A lot of rivers in Nebraska are flooding, which is creating this issue. – Mark Becker	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We are confident the Supreme Court will agree with the appeals court that, when Congress passed the Clean Water Act to protect our nation's waters, it did not give polluters a loophole to use groundwater as a sewer to convey harmful pollutants into our oceans, lakes and rivers. – David Henkin	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The Mississippi River, all our rivers connect us, to one another. To our shared story, for that is how this country was founded, with patriots who saw more that united them than divided them. – Amy Klobuchar	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We have been mostly fortunate with these big rain events, the atmospheric rivers, where the impact has been relatively localized. – Alex Tardy	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We have evidence of widespread forests all over the place, and big rivers moving through those forests. – Brandon Peecook	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
This wasnt some Sharknado event--these animals were making their way up rivers from the sea. – Pete Makovicky	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
(New Zealanders) are extremely worried that they are losing their ability to swim, fish and gather food from their rivers, lakes and streams, people see those activities as their birthright, but over the last 20 years, that right is being lost because the level of pollution in waterways has increased as farming intensifies. – Martin Taylor	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It is a confluence of all Naga sadhus at the meeting point of these holy rivers, they meet each other, they interact with each other and they meditate and pray here at the holy confluence. They give their message to the people and they transform people. – Anandnad Saraswati	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Because of the forward movement -- the decent forward movement it has -- you're going to see a hurricane stay intact through southwest and central Georgia, and then you're going to see rainfall through South and North Carolina, dumping 4 to 6 inches of rain in rivers that are already saturated and haven't really receded much from Florence a few weeks ago. – Brock Long	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Idaho Power's what feeds our streams and rivers anid feeds our hydro system later in the summer and fall and that's really when we need that extra energy. – Shaun Parkinson	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We know there will be a significant rise in the rivers, where they converge here, we'll just have to see. – Diana Holland	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Today, Lake Turkana gets about 90 % of its water from the SW Ethiopian highlands via the Omo River, and the remaining 10 % from the western Kenyan highlands via the Turkwel and Kerio Rivers. During times past, rainfall in all these areas fluctuated, and Lake Turkana expanded and contracted as weather systems changed. – Elisabeth Hildebrand	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Because K. brevis cannot tolerate low-salinity waters for very long, blooms usually remain in salty coastal waters and do not penetrate upper reaches of estuaries, however, other harmful algae, including cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), typically bloom in freshwater lakes and rivers. – The Florida Fish	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The Thai authorities took a lot of steps to divert rivers on the mountaintop which we believe bought us as lot of time to get this outcome. – Chris Jewell	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The record rainfalls in various parts of the country have caused rivers to burst their banks, and triggered large scale floods and landslides in several areas. – Cabinet Secretary Suga	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Temperatures in the pyroclastic flow can exceed 700 degrees (Celsius) and volcanic ash can rain down on a 15-km (9-mile) radius. That could cause more mud flows and nearby rivers to burst their banks. – Eddy Sanchez	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Temperatures in the pyroclastic flow can exceed 700 degrees (Celsius) and volcanic ash can rain down on a 15 kilometer (9.32 miles) radius. That could cause more mud flows and nearby rivers to burst their banks. – Eddy Sanchez	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I believe that China, Nepal and India are natural friends and partners. We are neighbors connected by the same mountains and rivers, as we say in China, family members and neighbors wish each other well. – Councillor Wang Yi	Found on Reuters 6 years ago

Unfortunately, we're starting to look for things we don't want to look for because it's been a week so we're starting to look in the rivers and the swamps, it's been a long week, and you know the crying stopped this morning for a while and it will come back.

– Steve Brittain

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Reservoirs in these districts are full. If we get more rainfall, then we have no option but to release water in rivers.

– Deepak Mhaiskar

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The very heavy rainfall yesterday and today, combined with saturated soil and very high water levels on many rivers and streams have created dangerous conditions around the state.

– Mike Parson

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The soil is saturated with rain and the rivers are already swollen, so the emergency is likely to get worse from flooding in the next few days.

– Michel Le Pechoux

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's already hard to explain rivers or lakes based on the information we have, this makes a difficult problem even more difficult.

– Edwin Kite

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Anyone with interests along impacted rivers should monitor closely/take action.

– The National Weather Service

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We've had a very cold winter, the ground is frozen, there's currently between 8 inches to a foot of snow melting, followed by rains and additional snow. A lot of rivers in Nebraska are flooding, which is creating this issue.

– Mark Becker

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are confident the Supreme Court will agree with the appeals court that, when Congress passed the Clean Water Act to protect our nation's waters, it did not give polluters a loophole to use groundwater as a sewer to convey harmful pollutants into our oceans, lakes and rivers.

– David Henkin

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The Mississippi River, all our rivers connect us, to one another. To our shared story, for that is how this country was founded, with patriots who saw more that united them than divided them.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We have been mostly fortunate with these big rain events, the atmospheric rivers, where the impact has been relatively localized.

– Alex Tardy

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We have evidence of widespread forests all over the place, and big rivers moving through those forests.

– Brandon Peecook

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

This wasnt some Sharknado event--these animals were making their way up rivers from the sea.

– Pete Makovicky

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

(New Zealanders) are extremely worried that they are losing their ability to swim, fish and gather food from their rivers, lakes and streams, people see those activities as their birthright, but over the last 20 years, that right is being lost because the level of pollution in waterways has increased as farming intensifies.

– Martin Taylor

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It is a confluence of all Naga sadhus at the meeting point of these holy rivers, they meet each other, they interact with each other and they meditate and pray here at the holy confluence. They give their message to the people and they transform people.

– Anandnad Saraswati

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Because of the forward movement -- the decent forward movement it has -- you're going to see a hurricane stay intact through southwest and central Georgia, and then you're going to see rainfall through South and North Carolina, dumping 4 to 6 inches of rain in rivers that are already saturated and haven't really receded much from Florence a few weeks ago.

– Brock Long

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Idaho Power's what feeds our streams and rivers anid feeds our hydro system later in the summer and fall and that's really when we need that extra energy.

– Shaun Parkinson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We know there will be a significant rise in the rivers, where they converge here, we'll just have to see.

– Diana Holland

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Today, Lake Turkana gets about 90 % of its water from the SW Ethiopian highlands via the Omo River, and the remaining 10 % from the western Kenyan highlands via the Turkwel and Kerio Rivers. During times past, rainfall in all these areas fluctuated, and Lake Turkana expanded and contracted as weather systems changed.

– Elisabeth Hildebrand

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Because K. brevis cannot tolerate low-salinity waters for very long, blooms usually remain in salty coastal waters and do not penetrate upper reaches of estuaries, however, other harmful algae, including cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), typically bloom in freshwater lakes and rivers.

– The Florida Fish

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The Thai authorities took a lot of steps to divert rivers on the mountaintop which we believe bought us as lot of time to get this outcome.

– Chris Jewell

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The record rainfalls in various parts of the country have caused rivers to burst their banks, and triggered large scale floods and landslides in several areas.

– Cabinet Secretary Suga

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Temperatures in the pyroclastic flow can exceed 700 degrees (Celsius) and volcanic ash can rain down on a 15-km (9-mile) radius. That could cause more mud flows and nearby rivers to burst their banks.

– Eddy Sanchez

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Temperatures in the pyroclastic flow can exceed 700 degrees (Celsius) and volcanic ash can rain down on a 15 kilometer (9.32 miles) radius. That could cause more mud flows and nearby rivers to burst their banks.

– Eddy Sanchez

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I believe that China, Nepal and India are natural friends and partners. We are neighbors connected by the same mountains and rivers, as we say in China, family members and neighbors wish each other well.

– Councillor Wang Yi

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

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