Bydgoszcz (, , ) is a city located in northern Poland, on the Brda and Vistula rivers.

Here's an interesting one for the IT world bio silicon. This is a diatom, which is made of silicates.

This region was the heart of ancient Mesopotamia, where the world s first known cities sprang up near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

The need for irrigation led the Sumerians, and later the Akkadians, to build their cities along the Tigris and Euphrates and the branches of these rivers.

After the Siege of Gaza, Alexander advanced from Syria towards the heart of the Persian empire, crossing both the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers without any opposition.

Hastings is a city in Dakota and Washington counties, in the U.S. state of Minnesota, near the confluence of the Mississippi and St. Croix Rivers.

7. Also stresses the importance of the restoration of river traffic, welcomes in this regard the reopening of the Congo and the Oubangi Rivers, and expresses its support for the establishment of the Congo River Basin Commission

Speak and say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, 'My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.'

Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

The current dam building plans threaten the Salween River s Grand Canyon a UNESCO World Heritage site and the pristine, environmentally sensitive areas through which the Brahmaputra and the Mekong flow.

18. Stresses the importance of the restoration of river traffic, welcomes in this regard the reopening of the Congo and Oubangui Rivers, and expresses its support for the establishment of a Congo River Basin Commission

Now, however, these activists have become more assertive, launching campaigns against a number of proposed dams along the Nu and Jinsha Rivers in Yunnan and the Min River in Sichuan.

The canyon which it has created is the deepest in Africa and one of the deepest in the world, at some points having a depth of over 2000 meters (6,562 feet).

Park had at that time adopted the theory that the Niger and the Congo were one, and in a memorandum drawn up before he left Britain he wrote My hopes of returning by the Congo are not altogether fanciful.

Each factor is to be given the weight warranted by the circumstances peculiar to each individual river basin, or group of basins, and all factors so weighted are to be considered together and a determination arrived at on the basis of the whole.

Bamboo trees are not useful to urban residents, but to people like Mung Ra who live alongside the Myitsone confluence of the Mali and N mai rivers, which forms the Irrawaddy River 26 miles north of the Kachin State capital Myitkyina bamboo is a crucial source of income.

The Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy clearly lacks the capacity to address illegal mining in such inaccessible locations and there is still no permanent UNMIL deployment north of the Bomi Hills between the Lofa and Moro Rivers.