Interlinking of rivers – A different view The Supreme Court issued a judgment on 27 th Feb 2012 to the Government of India to implement the scheme to interlink rivers. The government shall set up a high level committee on interlinking of rivers; the committee shall meet “at least‚ once in two months”; in the absence of any member the meeting shall not be adjourned; the committee shall submit a biannual report on actions to the Union Cabinet‚ “which shall take final and appropriate decisions in the
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Life’s Adventures A wise woman once said: “Life is like a river‚ sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.” The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi. He makes a friend and goes on a compelling journey experiencing many situations and several mishaps. Two friends escaping from their past via river on a feeble raft. The river is of great significance is this book. It is Huck’s sole chance to be free
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estimated rate of about an inch per year. This sinking is due to several different factors. The flooding of the Mississippi river has been controlled by levees since the late 1800’s. The river used to leave sediment when it flooded. When levees were put in to prevent flooding‚ the delta downstream was starved of sediment and nutrients. This sediment that the Mississippi river brought during floods used to settle and make more land over time. The sediment also used to formed a buffer between the city
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The Delaware River Is there a place that you go to just to think or feel relaxed? Everyone has a place like that and the Delaware River is that place for me. When I first moved to Pennsylvania seven years ago‚ I loved that I was going to live near a river. I had never lived so close to any body of water before. After about one year of living in Easton‚ Pennsylvania‚ my mom and I had decided to have a picnic every year alongside the Delaware River. We would sit on the grass with the sun warming
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By the River Each person possesses a distinct personality and a unique set of traits to match. Along with an individual identity‚ each person also possesses deviating dreams and desires. For instance‚ in Jack Hodgin’s By the River‚ two polar personalities are displayed throughout the story by the couple‚ Jim and Crystal Styan. Additionally‚ while the story progresses and while the different natures of the couple are discovered‚ contradicting dreams and desires are also uncovered
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The Red River War of 1874 During the summer of 1874‚ the U. S. Army launched a campaign to remove the Comanche‚ Kiowa‚ Southern Cheyenne‚ and Arapaho Indian tribes from the Southern Plains and enforce their relocation to reservations in Indian Territory. The actions of 1874 were unlike any prior attempts by the Army to pacify this area of the western frontier. The Red River War led to the end of an entire way of life for the Southern Plains tribes and brought about a new chapter in Texas history
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The Role of Women in the Japanese Society The first book I read for this assignment was The River Ki by Sawako Ariyoshi. This book is the one I like the most thus far in our reading for this class. The book explicitly described the life of three generations of people within one family. It was really interesting to see how the world changed around them and this caused the different generations to think differently as well. The people’s thoughts and ideas change throughout the different generations
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The Nile River Herodotus‚ a well-known Greek Historian‚ Called Egypt: ‘The Gift of The Nile.’ If it was not for the existence of the Nile River‚ Egypt would have been miles of barren sand with no future. The Nile played such an important role in the development of the Ancient Egyptian civilization that the history of Egypt and the Nile cannot be separated. The Nile is 6650 km long and 2.8 km wide. This makes it the longest river in the world. It has a very large catchment area of more than
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animals of the Amazon river are dangerous they have anacondas‚ piranhas and a lot more so of them are harmless in the Amazon river. The animals are the reason people are dying. Most of these animals are in the jungle and water and in the forest. Amazonian people live there. Some of them are dead and some of them are alive. In the Amazon river‚ animals use sand under water to hide so they can hunt their prey they also hide in bushes on trees. Out of all the animals in the Amazon river‚ the top predator
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implications in Cork City‚ grid reference: W665 717 (Geoghegan 2008). The River Lee has a long history of flooding issues that have led to serious consequences economically‚ environmentally and educationally. In this essay I intend to analyse the causes for the River Lee flooding as well as the impacts that has geographically on environment and civilisation. Causes of flooding include the release of water from dams‚ flash floods and river overflow. Synchronously impacts of these causes include economic crisis
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