River play a very important role for human from prehistoric culture age ,.The biggest culture of human civilization have developed in Egypt , Mesopotamia, India and china along big rivers like the Nile , Tigris- Euphrates , Indus and yellow river respectively . They are used originally for transportation and for spread of technology and culture affair from original place to other places. Today, we have another big river, called the internet that spread culture, information. Alas, defining age of sensitivity, knowledge as exposed another big rivers of the environment that support the previous other river of water and IT.
Let’s have a look at the former as apply to the Rhine River.
In previous posting I have discussed rivers of he world, and international water, rivers of the world are so diverse , some are one country properties and others are several countries properties that. The Mississippi applies to the earlier while the Rhine applies to the later.
Rivers shared by multiple countries are surrounded by very complicated and sophisticated situation and political issue. But the Rhine is one of the greatest developed water international al water well coordinated within the riparian countries that share it .it contribute immensely to economic development of Europe.
The rhyme flow through Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, and France Netherlands before emptying into the northern sea at Rotterdam.
Navigation of the rhyne- In 1815, the Central Committee for Navigation of the Rhyme was established in congress of Vienna to ensure freedom of navigation on the Rhine and its tributaries and to maintain legal regime governing navigation along the full length of the river.
In 195O the international commission for the protection of the Rhine was also founded, to monitored pollution and management of the rhyme. Spearhead by Netherlands as the final downstream riparian they were suffered from high levels of pollution and floods regularly.
Let’s have look at what Wikipedia said about he rhyme:
Character
Origin Grisons - Switzerland
Mouth - North Sea, Hoek van Holland, the Netherlands
Basin countries- Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands
Length - 1,320 km (820 mi)
Source - elevation Vorderrhein: approx. 2,600 m (8,500 ft)Hinterrhein: approx. 2,500 m (8,200 ft) Avg. discharge
Basel: 1,060 m³/s (37,440 ft³/s)Strasbourg: 1,080 m³/s (38,150 ft³/s)Cologne: 2,090 m³/s (73,820 ft³/s)Dutch border: 2,260 m³/s (79,823 ft³/s) Basin area 185,000 km² (71,430 mi²)
Description
The River Rhine (Dutch: Rijn; French: Rhin; German: Rhein; Italian: Reno; Romansh: Rein) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe at 1,320 kilometres (820 miles), with an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second. The name of the Rhine comes from the Celtic Renos, literally "that which flows", from the Proto-Indo-European root *rei- ("to flow, run").
The Rhine and the Danube formed most of the northern frontier of the Roman Empire, and since those days the Rhine has been a vital navigable waterway, carrying trade and goods deep inland. It has also served as a defensive feature, and been the basis for regional and international borders. The many castles and prehistoric fortifications along the Rhine testify to its importance as a waterway. River traffic could be stopped at these locations, usually for the purpose of collecting tolls, by the state controlling that portion of the river.
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1 Geography
1.1 Switzerland
1.2 Germany and France
1.3 The Netherlands
2 Large cities
3 Smaller cities
4 Railway bridges
5 Tributaries
6 Distributaries
7 Canals include
8 Geologic History
8.1 Alpine Orogeny
8.2 Stream Capture
8.3 Ice Age
9 Prehistory
9.1 Palaeolithic
9.2 Mesolithic
9.3 Iron Age
10 Historic and Military Relevance
11 References
12 Further reading
13 External links
13.1 Etymology
13.2 Geology
13.3 History
13.4 Castles
13.5 Navigation
13.6 Travel Guide
Following the above you can see that countries sharing the Rhine have long established integrative system regarding common thing related to transportation and environment. Rotterdam in particular is the very end of the rhyme, and they have utilized the benefit of rivers at maximum. However the success was achieved by concentrating on the three seas of transportation through water, information and environment. And of course share coordination of responsibility relating to regulations, control and infrastructure by public sectors and international cooperation for private users.
Above everything, rivers are blessing for human, and everything we do on land one way or the other get washed into the river and empty into sea whose transport process is very complicated , we don’t where it moving things that ends up in it to- even if we know is almost beyond human power to stop them - you see how much our planet is so linked – and this the reason why everything we do we must be careful and we must understand that one way or the other it will touch us no matter where we do it – this is also a reason why we must care about others no matter how far they are – because this beautiful planet is only and our interdependency is inevitable.
My questions:
What are the big rivers in your place?
What is it used for?
Is it being share by other countries?
What are the elements of river of IT and Environment being incorporated to manage it ?
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River play a very important role for human from prehistoric culture age ,.The biggest culture of human civilization have developed in Egypt , Mesopotamia, India and china along big rivers like the Nile , Tigris- Euphrates , Indus and yellow river respectively . They are used originally for transportation and for spread of technology and culture affair from original place to other places. Today, we have another big river, called the internet that spread culture, information. Alas, defining age of sensitivity, knowledge as exposed another big rivers of the environment that support the previous other river of water and IT. Let’s have a look at the former as apply to the Rhine River.
In previous posting I have discussed rivers of he world, and international water, rivers of the world are so diverse , some are one country properties and others are several countries properties that. The Mississippi applies to the earlier while the Rhine applies to the later.
Rivers shared by multiple countries are surrounded by very complicated and sophisticated situation and political issue. But the Rhine is one of the greatest developed water international al water well coordinated within the riparian countries that share it .it contribute immensely to economic development of Europe.
The rhyme flow through Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, and France Netherlands before emptying into the northern sea at Rotterdam.
Navigation of the rhyne- In 1815, the Central Committee for Navigation of the Rhyme was established in congress of Vienna to ensure freedom of navigation on the Rhine and its tributaries and to maintain legal regime governing navigation along the full length of the river.
In 195O the international commission for the protection of the Rhine was also founded, to monitored pollution and management of the rhyme. Spearhead by Netherlands as the final downstream riparian they were suffered from high levels of pollution and floods regularly.
Let’s have look at what Wikipedia said about he rhyme:
Character
Mouth - North Sea, Hoek van Holland, the Netherlands
Basin countries- Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands
Length - 1,320 km (820 mi)
Source - elevation Vorderrhein: approx. 2,600 m (8,500 ft)
Hinterrhein: approx. 2,500 m (8,200 ft) Avg. discharge
Basel: 1,060 m³/s (37,440 ft³/s)
Strasbourg: 1,080 m³/s (38,150 ft³/s)
Cologne: 2,090 m³/s (73,820 ft³/s)
Dutch border: 2,260 m³/s (79,823 ft³/s) Basin area 185,000 km² (71,430 mi²)
Description
The River Rhine (Dutch: Rijn; French: Rhin; German: Rhein; Italian: Reno; Romansh: Rein) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe at 1,320 kilometres (820 miles), with an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second. The name of the Rhine comes from the Celtic Renos, literally "that which flows", from the Proto-Indo-European root *rei- ("to flow, run").
The Rhine and the Danube formed most of the northern frontier of the Roman Empire, and since those days the Rhine has been a vital navigable waterway, carrying trade and goods deep inland. It has also served as a defensive feature, and been the basis for regional and international borders. The many castles and prehistoric fortifications along the Rhine testify to its importance as a waterway. River traffic could be stopped at these locations, usually for the purpose of collecting tolls, by the state controlling that portion of the river.
You can follow this link for further reading
- 1 Geography
- 2 Large cities
- 3 Smaller cities
- 4 Railway bridges
- 5 Tributaries
- 6 Distributaries
- 7 Canals include
- 8 Geologic History
- 9 Prehistory
- 10 Historic and Military Relevance
- 11 References
- 12 Further reading
- 13 External links
Following the above you can see that countries sharing the Rhine have long established integrative system regarding common thing related to transportation and environment. Rotterdam in particular is the very end of the rhyme, and they have utilized the benefit of rivers at maximum. However the success was achieved by concentrating on the three seas of transportation through water, information and environment. And of course share coordination of responsibility relating to regulations, control and infrastructure by public sectors and international cooperation for private users.
Above everything, rivers are blessing for human, and everything we do on land one way or the other get washed into the river and empty into sea whose transport process is very complicated , we don’t where it moving things that ends up in it to- even if we know is almost beyond human power to stop them - you see how much our planet is so linked – and this the reason why everything we do we must be careful and we must understand that one way or the other it will touch us no matter where we do it – this is also a reason why we must care about others no matter how far they are – because this beautiful planet is only and our interdependency is inevitable.
My questions:
What are the big rivers in your place?
What is it used for?
Is it being share by other countries?
What are the elements of river of IT and Environment being incorporated to manage it ?
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I learn so much from you page, you are beginny to become by geography teacher (and every other kind of teacher) maybe I should have paid more attention when I was in school. But then, you make everything a little more interesting. ThanksA Yahoo! user said 29 months ago · Delete
Speed: At the headwaters of the Mississippi, the average surface speed of the water is near 1.2 miles per hour - roughly one-third as fast as people walk. At New Orleans, on 2/24/2003, the speed of the river was 3 miles per hour. Length: River length is a difficult measurement to pin down because the river channel is constantly changing. For example, staff at Itasca State Park, the Mississippi's headwaters, say the Mississippi is 2,552 miles long. The US Geologic Survey has published a number of 2,300 miles (3,705 kilometers), the EPA says it is 2,320 miles long, and the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area maintains its length at 2,350 miles.Width: At Lake Itasca, the river is between 20-30 feet wide, the narrowest stretch for its entire length.The Mississippi is more than four miles wide at Lake Onalaska. Near LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Mississippi water held behind Lock and Dam #7 and water held back by damming the Black River combine to form this broad reach of the Mississippi River.Background Information:Historically, the widest part of the Mississippi is Lake Pepin. More than two miles wide, twenty miles long and 10,500 years old, Lake Pepin was formed by the Chippewa River!Sand and other materials carried by the Chippewa sink to the river bottom where the Chippewa and Mississippi join. The accumulation of these materials form a natural dam which in turn holds back the lake's water. Lake Pepin is located between Bay City, Wi and Red Wing, Mn on the upstream end and Read's Landing, Mn on the downstream end. Depth: At its headwaters, the Mississippi is less than 3 feet deep. The river's deepest section is betweenGovernor Nicholls Wharf and Algiers Point in New Orleans where it is 200 feet deep. Elevation: The elevation of the Mississippi at Lake Itasca is 1,475 feet above sea level. It drops to 0 feet above sea level at the Gulf of Mexico. More than half of that drop in elevation occurs within the state of Minnesota. Sediment Load: The Mississippi carries an average of 436,000 tons of sediment each day. Over the course of a year, it moves an average of 159 million tons of sediment. Averages have ranged from 1,576,000 tons per day in 1951 to 219,000 in 1988.Watershed Area: The Mississippi River Basin or Watershed drains 41% of continental United States. Thirty-one states and 2 Canadian provinces are included in the watershed. The total area drained by the watershed is between 1.2 and 1.8 million square miles.Background Information:Over the centuries, the Mississippi and its tributaries have carried soil and dissolved particles from one part of the continent and deposited them in another part of the continent. The Mississippi Alluvial Plain stretches from below Cairo, Il all the way to the Gulf of Mexico, nearly 600 miles. The north american continental shelf ends at Baton Rouge, La and land comprising the Mississippi Delta south of Baton Rouge has been built of soil carried by the Mississippi River. The picture on the left is of the Mississippi River Delta in the Gulf of Mexico. The dark red color shows water, the rest is land--sediment deposited by the Mississippi River. Water supply:Communities up and down the river use the Mississippi to obtain fresh water and to discharge their industrial and municipal waste. We don't have good figures on water use for the whole Mississippi River Basin, but we have some clues. A January, 2000 study published by the Upper Mississippi River Conservation Committee states that close to15 million people rely on the Mississippi River or its tributaries in just the upper half of the basin (from Cairo, Il. to Minneapolis, MN). A frequently cited figure of 18 million people using the Mississippi River Watershed for water supply comes from a 1982 study by the Upper Mississippi River Basin Committee. The Environmental Protection Agency simply says that more than 50 cities rely on the Mississippi for daily water supply.
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