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Nile River:
the world's largest river
feluccas (sail
boats) on the Nile River
This is a comprehensive
site about the Nile. It includes maps of the Nile, a Fact File
about the Nile, describes human activities on the Nile as well
as a discussion about the environmental impact of the Aswan High
Dam http://www.mbarron.net/Nile/
There's information about the history of the river and about the people who live near it. The photos are excellent. http://www.nileriver.com/nile/nileinfo/nileinfo.htm
Thames: United
Kingdom
General information http://www.visitthames.co.uk/
Photographs of the
river http://www.danheller.com/london-thames.html
About the Thames River flood barrier,
built to stop the river flooding London
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/regions/thames/323150/335688/341764/
River Rhine
, flowing through parts of six European countries
The Rhine is not the longest river in
Europe but is a major European river-trade artery. The Rhine runs
for 1,355 kilometers from Lake Constance to Basel in Switzerland,
then north through Germany, and finally west through the Netherlands
to Rotterdam. Along its banks
are magnificent castles and breathtaking, vine-terraced hills.
Small villages and large cities such as Bonn, Köln, and Koblenz
are built beside this great river.
This excellent site tells of the history of the clean up of the
river, once a dumping ground for wastes of all kinds. http://www.unesco.org/courier/2000_06/uk/planet.htm
This one is about the castles built
alongside the rhine.
http://www.mediaspec.com/castles/rhein/
Facts, history, conservation http://www.public.asu.edu/~goutam/gcu325/rhine.htm
Yangtze, China
This one is a digital
photo gallery http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cu4w-kwsm/chin9601/fwb806.htm
This site is a WWF discussion
about the yangtze and plans to dam it.
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/asia_pacific/where/china/yangtze_river/index.cfm
From PBS information about life along
the river in the Yangtze Basin
http://www.pbs.org/journeytoplanetearth/hope/yangtze.html
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updated October 2006