It is our beginning as it is the beginning of everything. It is elemental. Thus we desire to return to it. Thus we hold it sacred. Thus we make it holy and bless it.

This piece is specifically inspired in the Malecon Habanero (Havana's Malecon), which celebrated its one-hundredth anniversary in 2001 and is the protagonist of stories of all kinds―a...

The Ganga embodies all sacred waters in Hindu mythos and it is invoked in ritual just as Sarasvati was in an earlier age.

Each river in India has tales to tell. A land settled for more than 1.5 million years by humans, or eons descending back billions of years according to Hindu speculation of the antiquity of...

Yotam Haber conducted the hour-long New Water Music on the waters of Lake Pontchartrain while the piece was performed by several hundred community musicians, including both amateurs and...

His story became folklore. More than a hundred years later, in “Dirge to San Malo,” a Creole song collected by George Washington Cable in the 1800s, he does not confess.

Finally, it can be said that a river, or river feature, has predetermined the existence of many towns and cities in North Carolina.

As someone who has made repeated treks to Natchez, I am always drawn to the river.

People busied themselves along the water’s edge, bathing, washing laundry; men rowed long open boats full of passengers; wide shade umbrellas sheltered the rupee-charging holy men I’d...

We love the music but we have always wanted it to have an impact on how these countries think of themselves as riparian neighbors along the Nile, how each of us can become a better Nile...