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A group that measures river basin health cited the poor condition of infrastructure such as locks and dams, among other things, on what it says is the world's fourth-largest watershed.

Missouri forecasters said Monday the flooded Mississippi River is about to stop rising. But that news may come too late for some towns. In rural Lincoln County, virtually all of the region's primary levees failed, causing the river to reclaim tens of thousands of acres of floodplain. Adam Allington reports from member station KWMU in St. Louis.

While diverse wildlife which inhabit the Arkansas River Basin are adapted to flood events, experts say certain vulnerable species are being displaced and…

Independent producer Jon Kalish has this report on the New York City imagined by author Nicholas Rinaldi in his new novel Between Two Rivers. Rinaldi's story revolves around the residents of a fictitious condo building in lower Manhattan.

If you're eating a salad in Buffalo, Boston or Cincinnati, there's a pretty good chance the lettuce was grown near the U.S. Mexico border with water from the Colorado River. But the river is in peril.

The Mississippi River is expected to crest Sunday. Officials in low-lying New Orleans don't expect this time to be as bad as last month, but they're not taking any chances.

Storyteller David Greenberger gathers the words of the elderly and sets them to music. At a Chattanooga, Tenn., senior center, Greenberger recorded "Hollywood" -- real name Albert Enzel -- pondering the insanity of killing. This story and others are on a CD, Mayor of the Tennessee River by David Greenberger and the Shaking Ray Levis on PelPel records.

After her father died at the considerable age of 102, Mary Morris set out to reconnect with his early life along the Mississippi River with a riverboat trip through Mark Twain country.

Drought conditions in the Midwest are drying up the Arkansas River basin. Shrinking water levels are ravaging crops, sapping tourism and threatening drinking water supplies in the Rocky Mountains.

Drought conditions in the Midwest are drying up the Arkansas River basin. Shrinking water levels are ravaging crops, sapping tourism and threatening drinking water supplies in the Rocky Mountains.