Word: downstream
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...suddenly stood up, came near me, gave me a high five, and shouting “Done!” he flew straight out of the window. Yes, out of the closed window! And by the time I looked out, I saw him happily flying free as a bird downstream over the Charles...
...Sunshine Policy of his two predecessors, which boosted Seoul's economic aid to the North. Seoul was angered in September when North Korea, without forewarning, released a massive amount of water from behind a dam near the demilitarized zone, which ended up killing six South Koreans who were camping downstream on their side of the border. (The North issued a rare statement of regret after the incident.) Lee recently offered as a goodwill gesture to send 10,000 tons of corn and 20 tons of dry-milk powder as aid to the North, but Pyongyang, through its state-run media...
...secession call - an appeal for local control - went over well. "F--- America," said Will Neils, 32, a Green Party activist from Lincolnville, Me. "What have they done for us lately? Bush f---ed us, Clinton f---ed us. Let's cut the United States loose and let it drift downstream." Maine should stand up for Mainers, said Neils. In his view, the common enemy uniting Mainers, especially in the impoverished communities Neils grew up in, is government "run by and for the rich and on the backs of the poor." "I live beside conservatives," said Neils, "and there...
...lakes each day. Now, he says, those numbers have been reduced by 60%. But the local government has made an impact too: a drainage system, built by Udaipur's Urban Improvement Trust (a district regulatory body) and the Rajasthan government's Public Health Engineering Department, now diverts sewage downstream, though a treatment plant has yet to be installed...
...hope is that, properly managed, water could actually help knit Asia together. More than any other resource, water must be shared. Rivers don't respect borders, and those downstream are dependent on the good behavior of those upstream - as the residents of Khabarovsk learned in 2005. Asian nations will need to come together on water - or they'll go thirsty alone...