According to C. Michael Hogan, the Daugava River began experiencing environmental deterioration in the era of Soviet collective agriculture ( producing considerable adverse water pollution runoff ) and a wave of hydroelectric power projects.

There are three hydroelectric dams on the Daugava River – Rīgas HES just upstream from Riga or 35 km from the mouth of the river, Ķegums HPP another 35 km further up or 70 km from the mouth, and Pļaviņas HPP another 37 km upstream or 107 km from the mouth.

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Latvia's principal river, the Daugava River, was at the head of an important mainland route from the Baltic region through Russia into southern Europe and the Middle East used by the Vikings and later Nordic and German traders.

The proposed fourth dam, at the town of Daugavpils on the Daugava River, became the rallying point for protest in 1986-87 by hundreds of thousands of Latvians.

The dangers from a lack of cooperation were brought home to Latvians in November 1990, when a polymer complex in Navapolatsk, Belarus, accidentally spilled 128 tons of cyanide derivatives into the Daugava River with no warning to downstream users in Latvia.

air and water pollution because of a lack of waste conversion equipment ; Gulf of Riga and Daugava River heavily polluted ; contamination of soil and groundwater with chemicals and petroleum products at military bases

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Daugavpils () is a city in southeastern Latvia, located on the banks of the Daugava River, from which the city gets its name.

The Daugava River runs through the town, and the ancient valley, branches, and islands of the river are considered picturesque.

At the Daugava River he simultaneously spotted a lynx underneath a fir tree as well as a town at the same time.

The two historical parts of Jēkabpils — Krustpils and the older part of Jēkabpils — are connected by the bridge across the Daugava River.

Jēkabpils lies on both banks of the Daugava River.

The historical center of Tukums developed between trade routes leading from the mouth of the Daugava River to Prussia.

Eventually the Lielupe flows into the Baltic Sea, while the Buļļupe branch () flows into the Daugava River.

It is said that he will rise out of the Daugava River when his country needs him to again take on her attackers and invaders.

The origin of the ancient town Kuldiga ( Kuldīga – in Latvian ) can be explained by its location on the crossroads: the waterways of River Venta and land routes joining the Prussian lands with the lower reaches of River Daugava.

The tower is built on an island called Zaķusala in the middle of the River Daugava, and the base of the tower is located about 7 m above mean sea level.

It is the easternmost region north of the Daugava River.

The town is situated on the northern bank of the Daugava River 18 kilometers to the south-east of the city of Riga.

Baltic tribes in 1200-the Livonians inhabited the area north of the Balts, north of the Daugava River and around Cape Kolka in Courland.

Since they controlled an important trade route, the Daugava River ( Livonian: Väina ), their culture was highly developed through trade with the Gotlanders, Russians and Finns, and, from the end of the first millennium AD onwards, with the Germans, Swedes and Danes.

Berthold was followed by Albert von Buxhövden, who forced Livonian leaders at the mouth of the Daugava River to give him land to build a Christian settlement.

* Nemunėlis River ( German Memele, Latvian Mēmele )

The Lielupe ( in Latvian literally: Large River, ) is a river in central Latvia.

After several centuries, Kuldiga got a new bridge across the River Venta ( 1873-74 ), a new Town Hall was built ( 1868 ), the Orthodox Parish House and a church in Liepājas iela, a prison ( which is a post nowadays ), the House of Latvian Society ( which is the Centre for Culture nowadays ), the German Gymnasium in Kalna iela 19 and other buildings as well.

Venta River ( Latvian prunounciation, Lithuanian,,, Livonian Vǟnta joug ) is a river in north-western Lithuania and western Latvia.

Prior to their arrival in the area of Wenden in the 12th century, the Vends are believed to have settled in Wynda county ( Latvian: Ventava ) by the Venta River near the present city of Ventspils in western Latvia.

In the summer of 1919 the Lithuanian army, advancing against the Bolsheviks, crossed the Latvian border and reached the Daugava River, remaining in the eastern part of the ethnically-mixed Augšzeme region.

The problems that precluded the Polish and Latvian governments from expanding their relationship were the opposition from Lithuania ( which was hostile towards Poland after the Polish-Lithuanian War ) and a dispute about six Latvian rural municipalities and the city of Grīva with a big percentage of Polish inhabitants ( south to the Daugava River ).

At Yalta he thought more about the six million Germans who would have to leave, trying to find work in Germany, and Roosevelt objected to the Western Neisse River being chosen in the south, instead of the Eastern Neisse, both of which flow into the Oder.

About 1888 J. E. McNaughton of Barnumville and E. G. Bacon became proprietors of the `` Green Mountain Telegraph Company '', connecting all offices on the Western Union line and extending over the mountain from Barnumville to Peru, Londonderry, South Londonderry, Lowell Lake, Windham, North Windham, Grafton, Cambridgeport, Saxton's River, and Bellows Falls.

On Big Stone Lake near the headwaters of the Red River, Robert Dickson, Superintendent of the Western Indian Department of Canada, had a trading post and planned in 1818 to build a fort to be defended by twenty men and two small artillery pieces.

* 1829 – Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.

Fitzgerald River National Park in Western Australia

The Eastern Guinean forests extend from the Sassandra River across the south-central and southeast portion of Côte d ' Ivoire and east into Ghana, while the Western Guinean lowland forests extend west from the Sassandra River into Liberia and southeastern Guinea.

* Ceres Koekedouw Dam, dam on the Koekedouw River, near Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa

Don McLean has continued to record new material including River of Love in 1995 on Curb Records and, more recently, the albums You've Got to Share, Don McLean Sings Marty Robbins and The Western Album on his own Don McLean Music label.

* 1962 – Chris Marion, American musician ( Little River Band and Western Flyer )

There he was offered the title of Western Roman Emperor by the Ostrogoths at the same time that envoys of Justinian were arriving to negotiate a peace which would leave the region north of the Po River in Gothic hands.

Mokèlé-mbèmbé, meaning " one who stops the flow of rivers " in the Lingala language is a legendary water-dwelling creature of Congo River basin folklore, sometimes described as living creature, sometimes as a spirit, and loosely analogous to the Loch Ness Monster in Western culture.

* Mary River ( Western Australia )

Margaret River is a town in the South West of Western Australia, located in the valley of the eponymous Margaret River, south of Perth, the state capital.

Margaret River is located inland from the Indian Ocean at a point about halfway between Cape Naturaliste and Cape Leeuwin in Western Australia's South West region.

Category: Margaret River, Western Australia

* The Principality of Hutt River ( formerly " Hutt River Province "), a farm in Western Australia, claims to have seceded from Australia to become an independent principality, with a worldwide population numbered in the tens of thousands.

* 1834 – The Battle of Pinjarra is fought in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia.

Both the eastern region ( officially called Eastern Paraguay, Paraguay Oriental, and known as the Paraneña region ) and the western region ( officially Western Paraguay, Paraguay Occidental, and known as the Chaco ) gently slope toward and are drained into the Paraguay River, which separates and unifies the two regions.

Exploration of Western Canada and Rupert's Land with a view to annexation and settlement was a priority of Canada West politicians in the 1850s leading to the Palliser Expedition and the Red River Exploring Expedition of Henry Youle Hind.

The British colony would be officially designated Western Australia in 1832, but was known informally for many years as the Swan River Colony after the area's major watercourse.

During his long reign, Ivan the Terrible nearly doubled the already large Russian territory by annexing the three Tatar khanates ( parts of disintegrated Golden Horde ): Kazan and Astrakhan along the Volga River, and Sibirean Khanate in South Western Siberia.