The 1887 Yellow River Flood ... that cause rivers and drainage systems to overflow. Human causes such as deforestation, ...

A catastrophic flood It also suggests that the Chinese government's long-running efforts to tame the Yellow River with levees, dikes and drainage ditches ... on river basin geoarchaeology, has ...

The Yellow River also witnessed the birth of the four era-defining inventions in ancient China -- printing techniques, papermaking, gunpowder and the compass, which all emerged in the drainage ...

House Bill 1270 was amended Thursday to require counties pay an annual fee, starting in 2020, to a reconstituted Kankakee River Basin and Yellow ... drainage levy to make their contribution to the ...

China has had a particularly long and terrible history of flooding. In the last 2000 years, the Yangtze River has flooded more than 1000 times. But it is the Hwang Ho or "Yellow River" that has ...