River
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As two observers recently described it, Daulat Beg Oldie was a kind of transfer point for goods to be loaded on to pack ponies “for the cruel journey over the Saser La into the more hospitable Shyok
river
valley” leading to “Leh, Turtok, or Srinagar [in Kashmir].”
While spending some time in Zurich in 1994, I first experienced the joy of swimming in the city’s
river
and lake.
China became neighbors with India, Nepal, and Bhutan, and gained control over the region’s major
river
systems.
More than six million tons of fish are harvested annually from
river
basins with projected hydropower development.
By taking a system-scale approach – looking at dams in the context of an entire
river
basin, rather than on a project-by-project basis – we can better anticipate and balance the environmental, social, and economic effects of any single project, while at the same time ensuring that a community’s energy needs are met.
The Nature Conservancy has pioneered such a planning approach – what we call “Hydropower by Design” – to help countries realize the full value within their
river
basins.
Even one dam changes the physical attributes of a
river
basin.
In the case of hydropower, if we plan carefully using a more holistic approach, we can meet global goals for clean energy while protecting some 100,000 kilometers of
river
that would otherwise be disrupted.
The park’s waterways contain one-tenth of the world’s remaining 1,000 giant
river
otters, along with black and speckled caiman, pink
river
dolphins, and capybaras.
The now-stalled $3.6 billion Myitsone Dam, located at the headwaters of Burma’s largest river, the Irrawaddy, was designed to pump electricity exclusively into China’s power grid, despite the fact that Burma suffers daily power outages.
China’s over-damming of rivers and its inter-river and inter-basin water transfers have already wreaked havoc on natural ecosystems, causing
river
fragmentation and depletion and promoting groundwater exploitation beyond the natural replenishment capacity.
They know that Ipanema is a beach, that the Amazon is a river, that ex-US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill worried that money loaned to Brazil would re-appear in numbered European bank accounts, and that Lula is a president without administrative experience who heads a party with "workers" in its name.
To stop the contamination from spreading, the local fire department had to add significant quantities of dissolved aluminum chloride, which binds to cadmium and settles on the
river
bottom.
And by applying remote sensing technology to
river
basins, we can determine how much surface water is available and who is consuming what.
The Great Western Route, centered on the Tibetan Plateau, is designed to divert waters, including from international rivers, to the Yellow River, the main
river
of water-stressed northern China, which also originates in Tibet.
The country is also criss-crossed by its eponymous
river
and various other waterways.
There are times when muddling through – or, in the Chinese version, crossing the
river
by feeling the stones – is the right governing strategy, and there are times when a bold resetting of values and direction is required.
In the words of the venerable Chinese proverb, they are “feeling for the stones while crossing the river.”
Snow pack in the mountains is melting earlier in the season, so that
river
water is less available during summer growing seasons.
One of our dams, the Kpong, each day sends 5 million gallons of fresh water into the Atlantic despite the fact that on one side of the
river
the land lies arid and the people are mired in poverty.
In fact, the Tibetan Plateau is the starting point of almost all of Asia’s major
river
systems.
In Bangladesh, where millions of people live on fertile but flood-prone
river
deltas, the non-profit organization Islamic Relief found that by raising the land on which people lived, it could provide long-term protection from floods at a cost of £400 ($525) per family.
To get to Moldova from Odessa (now in Ukraine) one must drive through the self-proclaimed “republic” of Transdniestria (population 700,000), a sliver of land on the north shore of the Dniester
river.
His elimination shows the futility of the
river
of terror that he unleashed on history.
These two kinds of inequality are obviously connected: income flows into assets, like a
river
flows into a lake.
The key has been its unique strategy of “crossing the
river
by feeling the stones,” whereby it has gradually tested, implemented, and adjusted reforms and growth-enhancing policies.
What used to be a handy 1000-mile road, rail, and
river
link through Yugoslavia to Germany - Bulgaria biggest trading partner - now requires a long sea journey from the Black Sea though The Sea of Marmora, the Aegean, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic to the North Sea and the Baltic.
Chota’s widow journeyed six days by
river
to the regional capital to report their deaths.
Identification of genetic molecular markers for improved tea harvests in Kenya, ongoing efforts to examine alternative treatments for
river
blindness in Uganda, research on sickle-cell anemia in Ghana, and detailed assessments in Madagascar of the effectiveness of medicinal plants treating diabetes are examples of science-based initiatives that deserve recognition within the larger scientific community and among the public.
So China is not only refusing to create a water-sharing pact with any of its neighbors; it will not even share comprehensive data on upstream
river
flows.
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