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The Danube Sinkhole ( German: Donauversinkung or Donauversickerung) is an incipient underground stream capture in the Upper Danube Nature Park. Between Immendingen and Möhringen and also near Fridingen ( Tuttlingen ), the water of the Danube sinks into the riverbed in various places. The main sinkhole is next to a field named Brühl between ...
Injured. 7. Missing. 1 (as of 15 October 2019) [1] Hableány ( [ˈhɒblɛaːɲ]; Hungarian for 'Mermaid ') was a 27-metre (89 ft) river cruiser operated on the Danube river in Budapest, Hungary. On the rainy night of May 29, 2019, at 9:05 pm the 135-metre (443 ft) Viking Sigyn collided with Hableány from behind under the Margaret Bridge near ...
The tunnels were to lift water from an altitude of 68 metres (223 ft) (Danube level) up to 407 metres (1,335 ft) (uphill reservoirs). The reservoirs would also accept water from neighboring streams and collect a total of 587,000,000 cubic metres (2.07 × 10 10 cu ft) of water. The reservoirs would be connected with tunnels, from 1.95 kilometres ...
The modern Danube Delta began to form after 4000 BCE in a bay of the Black Seawhen the sea rose to its present level. A sandy barrier blocked the Danube bay where the river initially built its delta. Upon filling the bay with sediment, the delta advanced outside this barrier-blocked estuary after 3500 BC, building several successive lobes:[5 ...
Danube is an Old European river name derived from the Celtic ' danu ' or ' don ' [ 17] (both Celtic gods), which itself derived from the Proto-Indo-European *deh₂nu. Other European river names from the same root include the Dunaj, Dzvina/ Daugava, Don, Donets, Dnieper, Dniestr, Dysna and Tana/Deatnu. In Rigvedic Sanskrit, danu (दनु ...
Low-lying areas around New Delhi remain flooded, despite the River Jamuna's water levels slowly starting to recede. The water level of the Jamuna River flowing through India's capital topped a 40 ...
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Under this plan, in addition to the expansion of the Main and Danube, a completely new channel linking the rivers was to be created. The Rhein-Main-Donau AG (RMD-AG) was founded on 30 December 1921 to undertake the project. To finance the waterway, the RMD was given control of the water resources of the Main, Danube, Lech, Altmühl, and Regnitz ...