River | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-05-10

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River


00:01:45 1 Topography
00:05:39 1.1 Subsurface streams
00:06:20 1.2 Permanence of flow
00:07:38 2 Classification
00:08:00 2.1 Topographical classification
00:11:28 2.2 Biotic classification
00:13:00 2.3 Whitewater classification
00:13:24 2.4 Stream order classification
00:14:57 3 Uses
00:18:30 4 Ecosystem
00:19:59 5 Chemistry
00:20:40 6 Brackish water
00:21:01 7 Flooding
00:22:19 8 Flow
00:22:33 8.1 Direction
00:23:22 8.2 Rate
00:24:34 9 Fluvial erosion
00:25:50 10 Sediment yield
00:26:59 11 Management
00:28:41 12 See also



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SUMMARY
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A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as stream, creek, brook, rivulet, and rill. There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to  geographic features, although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size. Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location; examples are "run" in some parts of the United States, "burn" in Scotland and northeast England, and "beck" in northern England. Sometimes a river is defined as being larger than a creek, but not always: the language is vague.Rivers are part of the hydrological cycle; water generally collects in a river from precipitation through a drainage basin from surface runoff and other sources such as groundwater recharge, springs, and the release of stored water in natural ice and snowpacks (e.g., from glaciers). Potamology is the scientific study of rivers, while limnology is the study of inland waters in general. Most of the major cities of the world are situated on the banks of rivers, as they are, or were, used as a source of water, for obtaining food, for transport, as borders, as a defensive measure, as a source of hydropower to drive machinery, for bathing, and as a means of disposing of waste.