exactly my thoughts too

it's called tidal estuary

many boundaries in metro manila defined by rivers and (vanishing) esteros


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On Sep 12, 2013, at 10:22 AM, rem zamora <[email protected]> wrote:

> Good idea Jim.
> 
> However it got me thinking also... in the case of Pasig river, the flow of 
> the water depends on the time and tide of the day. Sometimes water flows 
> inward from the bay to Laguna lake but there are times also that the water 
> flows from the lake to the ocean (which is what seems to be natural to me, 
> all water flows toward the ocean).
> 
> Just a thought. This is the same case also in Malabon and some parts of 
> Bulacan also :)
> 
> On Sep 12, 2013 9:42 AM, "Jim Morgan" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thursday, 12 September, 2013 09:31 AM, maning sambale wrote:
>>> In some cases, we had to switch the way direction to follow the the
>>> convention [0] that the "direction of the way should be downstream
>> Hah, I'd never really thought of this before. I guess a lot of times I start 
>> tracing from the sea backwards inland, so I've probably got this wrong a few 
>> times.
>> 
>> It started me thinking though. If you were able to get the elevation data 
>> for the start point and end point of a waterway, you could probably work out 
>> the direction of flow from that, and apply it automagically.
>> 
>> So what about canals? :-)
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
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