The Waters
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| Genres | Christian/Gospel |
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| Albums | Waters |
| Ghost | |
| So Blessed | |
| Record labels | The Waters |
| Rhino/Warner Records | |
| The Waters Music LLC | |
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| ID | 2036214 |
About The Waters
Essequibo: Venezuelans vote to claim Guyana-controlled oil region
... The referendum follows the discovery in 2015 of oil in The Waters off Essequibo s coast by US oil giant ExxonMobil...
Sustainable fishing: The tech making it cheaper and greener
... As the sun rises, he steers his boat through The Waters of the River Clyde...
Levi Davis: Missing rugby player's family say they live in hope
... " Within the last two weeks they [the police] have updated me to say they ve completed a search of The Waters and haven t located either his body or his bag or any belongings...
Mangrove forests: Steely gaze of young tigress wins photo awards
... Mangroves & People runner-up: In the Forest, by Phan Thi Khanh, VietnamA fisherman navigates The Waters in the Ru Cha mangrove forest near Hue, Vietnam...
How China is fighting in the grey zone against Taiwan
... The Waters host a multi-billion-dollar shipping lane and are believed to hold vast oil and gas reserves...
Kevin McCarthy's replacement will inherit a poisoned chalice too
... And with the clock ticking toward a mid-November government shutdown, The Waters could get very rough...
Libya flood: Satellite images reveal destruction in Derna
... The Waters - which one official described as " like a tsunami" - swept away the bridges and whole blocks of buildings along the river including multi-storey residential blocks, government buildings and a large mosque...
Libya floods: Why damage to Derna was so catastrophic
... Witnesses have said that The Waters were nearly three metres in places...
Libya flood: Satellite images reveal destruction in Derna
By The Visual Journalism Team BBC News
Satellite images show the scale of destruction in the Libyan port of Derna after floodwaters Swept Away bridges, streets and communities - Leaving thousands of people missing or dead.
Heavy rains brought by Storm Daniel at the weekend caused two dams to burst on the usually dry Wadi Derna riverbed running through The City . The Torrents of water and Debris left a trail of devastation.
A series of bridges had crossed the Wadi, connecting The Port area with the western side of The City . The Waters - which one official described as " like a tsunami" - Swept Away the bridges and whole blocks of buildings along The River including multi-storey residential blocks, government buildings and a large mosque.
In the nearby neighbourhood of Al-Eilwa, around 96% of properties were reported to have been flooded.
Many properties which stood near The River have disappeared, Leaving only their foundations visible.
A major coastal road near The Port has been washed away.
Derna's population was around 200,000 before The Storm hit Libya.
The City 's mayor said that given number of neighbourhoods completely destroyed, between 18,000 and 20,000 people may have died.
Thousands are also injured or missing, with many more left without anywhere To Live .
Analysis by the UN shows More Than 2,200 buildings were exposed to rushing floodwaters and at least six bridges were damaged as well as The Port area. Each red dot in the picture above represents one structure hit by flooding.
Severely affected neighbourhoods such as Al-Bilad and Al-Maghar on either side of The River were also home to healthcare facilities used by people from across The City , according to disaster analysts Reach.
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Homes built in The Dry riverbed on The Sea side of The Dam bore the brunt of The Flood as the dams burst.
Hamad Shalawi, a former local official and member of the disaster committee, said The City was destroyed in seconds with whole families killed as residential buildings disappeared.
" The geography of The City has completely changed as half of The City has been Swept into The Sea , " he told Bbc Arabic .
Community facilities, including buildings around Darnes Football Club's home ground, were also destroyed or covered in layers of mud and Debris .
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Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
