Lai River (Purari)
''Lai River'' may refer to: Pakistan * Lai Nullah, also Lai River, flowing from the Margalla Hills through Rawalpindi Papua New Guinea * Lai River (Purari) is a tributary of the Purari River in Southern Highlands Province in the central highlands * Lai River (Sepik) is a tributary of the Sepik River in Enga Province in the central highlands Thailand * Nam Mae Lai is a tributary of the Yom River and part of the Chao Phraya River basin Vietnam * Ba Lai River in the Mekong Delta region * Lai Giang River, known as the Lai River, in central Vietnam by Bồng Sơn Bồng Sơn is a Ward (Vietnam), ward () of Hoài Nhơn town in northern Bình Định Province, Vietnam.''Vietnam Road Atlas'' (Tập Bản đồ Giao thông Đường bộ Việt Nam). Cartographic Publishing House (Vietnam), 2004 Geography and ...

Lai Nullah
Lai Nullah (Urdu: نالہ لئی), commonly called Nullah Lai, is a rain water fed natural stream flowing through the city of Rawalpindi. Every monsoon season the stream floods after being fed by its catchment basin in the Margalla Hills bordering Islamabad, Pakistan. The Lai Nullah Basin has a catchment area of 234.8 km2, extending to the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. A record level of 620 mm of rainfall fell in Islamabad, Pakistan one in just 10 hours brought in its wake huge urban storm flooding in the famous Lai Nullah flowing through the twin cities on 23 July 2001., Islamabad and Rawalpindi are situated along the Margallah hills. In this paper severe rainfall spell 4–9 July 2008 is analyzed. Our main focus is the flooding which occurred on 5 July due to 104mm rainfall received in only 100 minutes; 162 mm rainfall was recorded only in 5 hours at PMD Headquarters Islamabad. Densely populated low-lying areas along Lai Nullah faced flood like situ ...
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Lai River (Purari)
''Lai River'' may refer to: Pakistan * Lai Nullah, also Lai River, flowing from the Margalla Hills through Rawalpindi Papua New Guinea * Lai River (Purari) is a tributary of the Purari River in Southern Highlands Province in the central highlands * Lai River (Sepik) is a tributary of the Sepik River in Enga Province in the central highlands Thailand * Nam Mae Lai is a tributary of the Yom River and part of the Chao Phraya River basin Vietnam * Ba Lai River in the Mekong Delta region * Lai Giang River, known as the Lai River, in central Vietnam by Bồng Sơn Bồng Sơn is a Ward (Vietnam), ward () of Hoài Nhơn town in northern Bình Định Province, Vietnam.''Vietnam Road Atlas'' (Tập Bản đồ Giao thông Đường bộ Việt Nam). Cartographic Publishing House (Vietnam), 2004 Geography and ...

Purari River
The Purari (also known as Puraari) is a river that originates in the south central highlands especially in Kandep District of Enga Province of Papua New Guinea, flowing though Gulf Province to the Gulf of Papua. The Purari has a drainage basin and is the third largest river in Papua New Guinea. The discharge varies through the year, averaging around – at the delta. History The headwaters of the river were charted in 1930 by Michael Leahy and Michael Dwyer. Geography It is fed mainly by the Kaugel, Erave, Lai, Tua and Pio rivers, starting just south of Mount Karimui at the junction of the Tua and Pio rivers, where it flows through a quite spectacular gorge before flowing out into the lowlands and delta country closer to the coast. River becomes tidal at substantial distance from the waters of Gulf of Papua. The Purari is a heavy muddy brown from silts washed down from the mountains, and rises and falls constantly depending on local rainfall. Delta The Purari Delta ...
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Lai River (Sepik)
''Lai River'' may refer to: Pakistan * Lai Nullah, also Lai River, flowing from the Margalla Hills through Rawalpindi Papua New Guinea * Lai River (Purari) is a tributary of the Purari River in Southern Highlands Province in the central highlands * Lai River (Sepik) is a tributary of the Sepik River in Enga Province in the central highlands Thailand * Nam Mae Lai is a tributary of the Yom River and part of the Chao Phraya River basin Vietnam * Ba Lai River in the Mekong Delta region * Lai Giang River, known as the Lai River, in central Vietnam by Bồng Sơn Bồng Sơn is a Ward (Vietnam), ward () of Hoài Nhơn town in northern Bình Định Province, Vietnam.''Vietnam Road Atlas'' (Tập Bản đồ Giao thông Đường bộ Việt Nam). Cartographic Publishing House (Vietnam), 2004 Geography and ...

Sepik River
The Sepik () is the longest river on the island of New Guinea, and the third largest in Oceania by discharge volume after the Fly River, Fly and Mamberamo River, Mamberamo. The majority of the river flows through the Papua New Guinea (PNG) provinces of Sandaun (formerly West Sepik) and East Sepik, with a small section flowing through the Indonesian province of Papua (Indonesian province), Papua. The Sepik has a large catchment area, and landforms that include swamplands, tropical rainforests and mountains. Biologically, the river system is often said to be possibly the largest uncontaminated freshwater wetland system in the Asia-Pacific region. But, in fact, numerous fish and plant species have been introduced into the Sepik since the mid-20th century. Name In 1884, Germany asserted control over the northeast quadrant of the island of New Guinea, which became part of the German colonial empire. The colony was initially managed by the Deutsche Neuguinea-Kompagnie or German New ...
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Nam Mae Lai
The Nam Mae Lai (, ) is a river in Phrae Province of Thailand. It is a tributary of the Yom River, part of the Chao Phraya River The Chao Phraya River is the major river in Thailand, with its low alluvial plain forming the centre of the country. It flows through Bangkok and then into the Gulf of Thailand. Etymology Written evidence of the river being referred to by the ... basin. The Nam Mae Lai flows into the Yom at , next to the village of Ban Bun Charoen. Notes and references Lai {{Thailand-river-stub ...
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Ba Lai River
The Ba Lai River () is a river in the Mekong Delta region, Vietnam, in Ben Tre Province, flowing between An Hoa Island and Bao Island. It is a direct tributary of the Tien River at the boundary of Phu Duc and Tan Phu Communes. At the beginning of the 20th century, the flow from Tien River began to diminish. The water source of the Ba Lai River now comes mainly from the My Tho River. The Ba Lai River has also begun to diminish and the Ba Lai estuary is now filling with sediment and becoming blocked. In 2002, an irrigation dam was built across the River to stop the infiltration of salt water and preserve fresh water Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salt (chemistry), salts and other total dissolved solids. The term excludes seawater and brackish water, but it does include ... for 100,000 hectares of farmland in Bến Tre. References Rivers of Bến Tre province Rivers of Vietnam {{ ...
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Lai Giang River
Lai or LAI may refer to: Abbreviations * Austrian Latin America Institute (Österreichisches Lateinamerika-Institut) * ''Latin American Idol'', TV series * La Trobe Institute, Melbourne, Australia * Leaf area index, leaf area of a crop or vegetation per unit ground area * League against Imperialism, transnational anti-imperialist organization in the interwar period * Liga Atlética Interuniversitaria de Puerto Rico * Location Area Identity Transport * Laindon railway station, Essex, England (National Rail station code LAI) * Lannion – Côte de Granit Airport, Brittany, France (IATA airport code LAI) Places * Lai (state) (萊), 6th-century BC state in present-day Shandong, China *Bolyu language, also known as Lai * Laï, city in Chad * Lai, Iran (other), places in Iran * Lai, village in Lum Choar, Cambodia * ''Lai'', Romansch name for Lenzerheide, a village in Switzerland Surname * Lai (surname) 賴, 黎丶Chinese surname * Lí (surname 黎), Lai in Cantonese * F ...
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