Some people might want to block or divert a river and use the water for some other purpose, such as farming. 04:52 To do so, they can pile up earth and stones in the river and build a weir.

A 67-year-old man died after falling about 20 meters into a river while clearing snow from a bridge in Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, police said Sunday. According to police, the incident occurred at ...

There has been a consensus that the basins of short, steep, and seasonally fed rivers of Japan subject to frequent flooding are in many ways identical or similar to the river basins of Kerala and the ...