Rivers and Waterways
When many people in the United States think of rivers they think of Mark Twain and his famous writings about life along the Mississippi river. In actuality, rivers serve a critical role. Rivers and waterways often provide an important method of transporting goods. The ability to create large barges that can carry tremendous amounts of cargo has … Keep Reading → allowed for both national and international transportation of goods on a scale that would be otherwise impossible. In the United States alone, it would take huge numbers of cargo trains and large trucks to match the capacity of a single transport of connected barges. The majority of rivers and inland waterways in the United States are on the east coast of the country. The Mississippi River System, which includes the Mississippi river itself and many other rivers that flow from it, makes up the majority of all rivers in the country. There are some rivers and waterways on the west coast but many of those have been used to create dams that supply electric power.
