Danny Meyer

It's the job of any business owner to be clear about the company's nonnegotiable core values. They're the riverbanks that help guide us as we refine and improve on performance and excellence. A lack of riverbanks creates estuaries and cloudy waters that are confusing to navigate. I want a crystal-clear, swiftly flowing stream.

American Businessman

Isabella Bird

The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mountains have disappeared, and dark forests of date palms intersected by canals fringe its margin heavily, and extend to some distance inland.

English Explorer

Jim Gerlach

Seeing the rebirth of the Delaware Estuary as a valuable natural resource is certainly encouraging, and I am encouraged not just by the progress made in the Delaware Estuary but in estuaries throughout the country.

American Politician

Jerry Costello

In celebration of this Earth Day, I encourage all Members of the House to support legislation aimed at investing in the improvement of water quality in our Nation's lakes, rivers, streams and estuaries.

Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries.

Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.

Tim Bishop

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

Estuaries are vital for the environment and often referenced in ecological or conservation contexts.

Ecological Significance

Estuaries may have cultural or historical importance, featuring in local folklore or history.

Cultural Associations

Estuaries are often hubs of commerce and trade due to their accessibility for ships.

Commerce and Trade

 this is salt water perpetually throughout the year in the winter and spring normally this water that we're on top of would be fresh you could drink it does that really make a huge difference to the health of the ecosystem it makes all the difference to an estuary so it's really the mixing of fresh water with salt water from the

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 Using a series of dams, the Delta Commission transformed these estuaries into expansive lakes that serve as nature preserves and community parks. However, this solution wouldn’t work for the Nieuwe Waterweg. As the lifeblood of the local shipping industry, this passage had to be kept open in safe conditions,

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 There, it's possible to swim among the ruins of structures built by Rome's great families, senators, and emperors. And then there are shipwrecks. As ships grow too old for use, they're usually abandoned near shore in out-of-the-way places like estuaries, rivers, and shallow bays.

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 - And the flow. - And the flow. - And so that's gorgeous one. - That's a beauty there. The extreme tidal fluctuations of this estuary and the mixing of fresh and salt water are a part of what makes this the perfect environment to grow the oysters. How do they get here?

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 the move again supported by the murray-darling Basin Authority this year's ring balan culminates with a ceremony at the current a unique estuary it's a part of who I am it's a part of my life it's a part of my parents life when I grew up when people got sick they

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 them left so because of course we get lucky today now this species is found in and around whole cold waters particularly at the mouth of the Pearl River estuary but now it's a highly fragmented population a beautiful animal and extremely rare to

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 Especially common were trematodes, tiny worms that specialize in castrating their hosts like this unfortunate snail. Now, a single trematode is tiny, microscopic, but collectively they weighed as much as all the fish in the estuaries

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 But human activity has made eutrophication a regular and widespread occurrence. Nutrient-rich waste from our sewage systems and industrial processes often end up in lakes, estuaries and coastal waters.

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 life but during the storm this chain gets broken intense tropical storms can have an impact on the shark fauna of these estuaries and it can be long-lasting when tropical storms pass through they

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 Just 150 miles south of Ryan's study site, at St. Lucia estuary, one of Africa's

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