  We give a general method for constructing recursion operators for some
equations of hydrodynamic type, admitting a nonstandard Lax representation. We
give several examples for N=2 and N=3 containing the equations of shallow water
waves and its generalizations with their first two higher symmetries and their
recursion operators. We also discuss a reduction of $N+1$ systems to $N$
systems of some new equations of hydrodynamic type.
