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Preventing the death of the world’s rivers
Posted By Brahma Chellaney on February 7, 2020 @ 11:33
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[1] emergence of human civilisation: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1714-1?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=commission_junction&utm_campaign=3_nsn6445_deeplink_PID8099906&utm_content=deeplink
[2] environmental havoc: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chinas-environmental-crisis
[3] more than half: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1200961/new-study-shows-dramatic-fall-number-rivers-china
[4] historically low level: http://www.mrcmekong.org/news-and-events/news/mekong-water-levels-reach-low-record/
[5] tapping: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2201876-humans-have-interfered-with-most-of-the-worlds-greatest-rivers/
[6] three-quarters: https://www.ipbes.net/sites/default/files/downloads/spm_unedited_advance_for_posting_htn.pdf
[7] qualify: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17704190/ns/world_news-world_environment/t/wwf-lists-most-endangered-rivers-globally/
[8] flow freely: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1111-9?fbclid=IwAR015uips0lTMCfJmee_7uHZw53oIjGtFPnPVZTTv2jboGkzGwzpnmJtrIA
[9] depositing: https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/2008JCLI2592.1?journalCode=clim&mobileUi=0&
[10] lost: https://www.millenniumassessment.org/documents/document.356.aspx.pdf
[11] destroyed: https://phys.org/news/2012-10-wetlands.html
[12] warned: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report/
[13] dried up: https://books.google.co.in/books?id=yEOhFg5tGIcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Aral+Sea+ecological+disaster&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Aral%20Sea%20ecological%20disaster&f=false
[14] making local people ill: https://tidsskriftet.no/en/2017/10/global-helse/vanishing-aral-sea-health-consequences-environmental-disaster
[15] 200 million tons: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276360769_Global_carbon_export_from_the_terrestrial_biosphere_controlled_by_erosion
[16] considered: https://www.epa.gov/national-aquatic-resource-surveys/national-rivers-and-streams-assessment-2008-2009-results
[17] Waters of the United States: https://www.epa.gov/nwpr/about-waters-united-states
[18] replaced: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/climate/trump-clean-water-rollback.html
[19] Navigable Waters Protection Rule: https://www.epa.gov/nwpr
[20] lost: https://www.globalforestwatch.org/
[21] absence: https://books.google.co.in/books?id=rP3bBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA42&lpg=PA42&dq=Brahma+Chellaney:The+vast+majority+of+transnational+rivers+lack+any+legal+water-sharing+or+cooperative-management+framework.&source=bl&ots=zxu35Bbu6w&sig=ACfU3U1nFjqF6xpPgMSKirjCm4qHFYLlog&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Brahma%20Chellaney%3AThe%20vast%20majority%20of%20transnational%20rivers%20lack%20any%20legal%20water-sharing%20or%20cooperative-management%20framework.&f=false
[22] World Heritage Convention: https://whc.unesco.org/en/convention/
[23] add: http://www.transrivers.org/pdf/2019HeritageDammedFinal.pdf
[24] enforcement: https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol23/iss1/art7/