The delta ends in the Dvina Bay of the White Sea.

Delta works After the 1953 disaster, the Delta Works were constructed, a comprehensive set of civil works throughout the Dutch coast.

It is part of the largest delta in the world.

From north to south the delta is approximately in length.

(6) Chairman, Election Petition Tribunal (Second Panel) Delta State 2003

Wells Township is a civil township of Delta County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

In 1847 Muhammad Ali laid the foundation stone of the great bridge across the Nile at the beginning of the Delta.

In the southern part of the delta lies the Sundarban, the world's largest mangrove forest.

Shell has closed key facilities in the Delta after the abduction of several workers.

On the southwest side of the delta is the naval base of Severodvinsk, the second largest city in the region.

The Delta project is considered by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the seven wonders of the modern world.

And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor.

That will require repairing and improving damaged infrastructure, generating economic prosperity, running efficient social services, and taming the unrest in the delta region.

In addition to the delta and desert areas, there are grasslands and savannas, where blue wildebeest, antelopes, and other mammals and birds are found.

The environmental destruction of the delta is part of a larger saga corrupt companies operating hand in hand with corrupt government officials.

The President has appointed the late Ken Saro Wiwa s son as one of his special assistants, in an attempt to mend fences with political elites in the restive delta.

Assuming no foul play, Shafiq received around two million votes from four Delta governorates Sharqiya, Gharbiya, Munufiya, and Daqahliyya.

It is located in the northern part of the country in the Nile Delta, to the south of Gharbia governorate and to the north of Cairo.

Obasanjo is anxious to thwart the region s growing armed insurgency, which is driven by widespread poverty and oil industry related ecological damage.

It is part of the Delta Works and it is one of largest moving structures on Earth, rivalling the Green Bank Telescope in the USA and the Bagger 288 excavator in Germany.

Apologies to Hans Rosling he said anything that's not using real stats is a lie but the big delta there is how we deal with this from a public standpoint.

Pacifying the Delta is vitally important, because Nigeria, the world s eighth largest oil producer, earns 86 of its export revenue from oil.

The Biafra war was largely an oil war, prosecuted by northern officers and politicians to win back the delta oil fields from the Igbo.

Nigerian officials have become fabulously wealthy, owing to decades of payoffs by international companies that have plundered the delta s natural wealth.

The Delta Works () is a series of construction projects in the southwest of the Netherlands to protect a large area of land around the Rhine Meuse Scheldt delta from the sea.

A main goal of the Delta project was to reduce the risk of flooding in South Holland and Zeeland to once per 10,000 years (compared to 1 per 4000 years for the rest of the country).

Along with the Zuiderzee Works, Delta Works have been declared one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Meanwhile, restive armed youth in the oil producing delta, Jonathan s native region, are waiting to see what dividends our son will bring to his long neglected home.

The Committee is deeply concerned about the adverse effects on the environment of ethnic communities through large scale exploitation of natural resources in the Delta Region and other River States, in particular, the Ogoni areas.

Coral reefs, mega deltas (which include cities like Shanghai, Kolkata, and Dhaka), and small island states are also extremely vulnerable to rising sea levels.

The global companies operating in the delta have spilled oil and flared natural gas for decades, without regard for the natural environment and the communities impoverished and poisoned by their actions.

Attacks on pipelines have recently intensified ahead of a planned summit meeting between the government and various militia leaders, as small groups of militants stage attacks on oil infrastructure in the Delta to establish their relevance and win a potentially lucrative seat at the negotiating table.

There is no reason to believe that Goodluck Jonathan will preemptively resign, and removing him from office if he assumes the presidency might well stoke unprecedented violence in the Delta.

Dangling the PDP s presidential ticket before the delta region s leading politicians is seen as Obasanjo s strategy to maintain stability and, more importantly, prevent Atiku Abubakar or General Buhari from coming to power.

Tropical diseases will spread, killing still more people.

A few weeks ago, a previously unknown organization called The Martyr s Brigade claimed credit for attacks on Delta pipelines, raising concerns among multinationals that mercenary resistance in the region is becoming ideological.

Even if they overcome their reservations and back Ribadu or Buhari, and either candidate goes on to beat Jonathan at the polls, angry Delta youths could respond with fresh violence against oil workers, disrupting production.