Not all fish have suffered from the modifications to the river ; the northern pikeminnow ( formerly known as the squawfish ) thrives in the warmer, slower water created by the dams.

Like the railroads and river transport operators, however, Sudan Airways suffered from a shortage of skilled personnel, overstaffing, and lacked hard currency and credit for spare parts and proper maintenance.

During the trip down the river, Roosevelt suffered a minor leg wound after he jumped into the river to try to prevent two of his crew's canoes from smashing against the rocks.

Southeast Asia suffered a drought which dried up an important river which ran through the capital city of the Kingdom of Ayodhya, forcing the King to move the capital to a new location on the Lop Buri River.

A major tributary, the River Pelenna, which meets the Afan at Pontrhydyfen, suffered more severely from pollution than the main river because of the sulphur-rich coal produced by the mines in that area.

Navigation was difficult, as the river suffered from fierce currents, shallows, floods in spring and early summer when the ice was melting, and droughts in late summer.

" Though Horatius did not perish in the river, the disability he suffered ( and subsequent honorable discharge from the army ) ended the life he had previously pursued.

They suffered severe damage in World War II bombing and became redundant in the 1960s following the collapse of the river trade.

By the subsequent extension of the Elkland borough limits south of the Cowanesque river, the townships of Osceola and Nelson both suffered material reductions of area.

Because of its setting near the river and the region's heavy snows, Jamaica has suffered through many damaging floods in the more than two hundred years since its founding.

Throughout its history, Philippi has suffered from floods because of its proximity to the river and the relatively low elevation of most of the town.

The river Great Ouse at St Ives flooded in 1947, and some parts suffered seriously again at Easter 1998 and in January 2003.

The river is mainly an urban waterway and has suffered from sewage effluent and industrial waste, though levels of pollutants and mine water discharges have decreased since 1999.

Roberts Park, on the north side of the river, has suffered from neglect and vandalism but has been restored by Bradford Council

The city suffered several invasions, by the Magyars in 925-926, when the cathedral was destroyed, and by the Saracens ( 940 and 954 ), but afterwards it flourished thanks to its location, where the roads from several major Alpine transit routes come together and continue down the Rhine river.

On 23 February British forces in Burma had suffered a serious setback when Major-General Jackie Smyth's decision to destroy the bridge over the Sittang river to prevent the enemy crossing had resulted in most of his division being trapped on the wrong side of the river.

The Boers reputedly suffered only 3 injuries without any fatalities, while the blood of 3, 000 slain Zulu turned the river red with blood, so that the conflict afterwards became known as the Battle of Blood River.

Two days prior to the race, however, the Cambridge crew suffered a collision on the river in which oarsman Wayne Pommen was injured.

The river here suffered a catastrophic flood in the 1950s.

Tekirdağ was for many years a depot for the produce of the Edirne province, but its trade suffered when Alexandroupolis became the terminus of the railway up the river Maritsa.

In 1992, the Darling River suffered from severe cyanobacterial bloom that stretched the length of the river.

The effect is to reduce significantly the danger of devastating floods in the Mekong delta, where the river floods the surrounding fields each year to a level of one to two meters.

An earlier equally devastating flood of the river took place in 1903.

However, frequent devastating floods and course changes produced by the continual elevation of the river bed, sometimes above the level of its surrounding fields has also earned it the unenviable names " China's Sorrow " and " Scourge of the Sons of Han.

In Summer 458, a group of Vandals, led by the brother-in-law of Genseric, landed in Campania, at the mouth of the Liri or the Garigliano river, and started devastating and sacking the region.

Genevieve was moved to its present higher location, from the river bottoms after the devastating floods of 1785.

Another devastating flood occurred in 1929 when the river crested at a depth of early on March 15.

The river claimed an entire street from town and has spawned several devastating floods.

The town and the river was hit by devastating flash flooding from late at night on July 26, 2008 through July 27, 2008.

The Mother's Day Flood of 1957 saw Sulphur Creek, a local river, strike the city in devastating flash flood which claimed five lives and destroyed many homes, businesses, and other property around downtown Lampasas.

Center Benwood used to be hit very hard by the devastating floods of the Ohio River, but a flood wall was constructed along Water Street ( the street that runs along the banks of the Ohio River ) in 1982, thus protecting that section of Benwood from the river floods seen in the last three decades ( 1990, 1991, 1996, 2004, 2005 and 2011 ).

Sometime in the 1930s a devastating storm flooded a river, that runs alongside the field's first base line, and washed away the entire stadium in a violent flood.

But in 1954, Hurricane Hazel raised the river to devastating flood levels, destroying buildings and bridges ; on Raymore Drive, 60 homes were destroyed and 35 people were killed.

Hastened by increasing hardships, the Garhwal Himalayas soon became the centre for a rising ecological awareness of how reckless deforestation had denuded much of the forest cover, resulting in the devastating Alaknanda River floods of July 1970, when a major landslide blocked the river and affected an area starting from Hanumanchatti, near Badrinath to 350 km downstream till Haridwar, further numerous villages, bridges and roads were washed away.

The most devastating flood occurred in June 1867, the Nepean River being estimated to have reached a height of about 13. 4 metres in the river, and 27. 47 metres on land, i. e. 27. 74 metres AHD ( Australian Height Datum ).

In 1994 devastating floods on the river after heavy rains caused widespread damage around Macon.

Studies indicated that the proposed river engineering of the Paraguay would have lowered the river levels by several feet and have a devastating impact on the Pantanal wetlands, but the member nations of the CIH were determined to go ahead with the plan.

Originally located on the left bank of the river Kish, the town sat lower down the hill, however Shaki was moved to its present location after a devastating flood in 1772 and became the capital of Shaki Khanate.

Within the city limits, the river bed consists almost entirely of concrete, which was installed between 1895 and 1899 in order to stop the devastating floods, sometimes accompanied by cholera, which the river had regularly caused before that time.

A devastating flood destroyed Fort Garry in 1826, prompting the company's then governor, George Simpson, to search for a safer location down river.

The damage created by the disaster had still not been repaired when, in 1855, the river burst its banks again, drowning thousands and devastating the fertile province of Jiangsu.

An earlier devastating flood occurred on the river in 1868.