River
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For instance, children who live on one side of the
river
can now attend school on the other side during the rainy season.
The question facing every country is this: do you want to jump over the
river
before the rest of the world or after.
If history is a
river
whose course and flow are shaped by the large structural forces of climate and topography, human agents can be portrayed as ants clinging to a log swept along by the current, or as white-water rafters steering and avoiding rocks, occasionally overturning and sometimes succeeding.
A Global Environmental Threat Made in ChinaNEW DELHI – Asia’s future is inextricably tied to the Himalayas, the world’s tallest mountain range and the source of the water-stressed continent’s major
river
systems.
China’s reengineering of natural
river
flows through damming – one-fifth of the country’s rivers now have less water flowing through them each year than is diverted to reservoirs – has already degraded riparian ecosystems and caused 350 large lakes to disappear.
Already, copper mine tailings are polluting waters in a Himalayan region sacred to Tibetans, which they call Pemako (“Hidden Lotus Land”), where the world’s highest-altitude major river, the Brahmaputra (Yarlung Tsangpo to Tibetans), curves around the Himalayas before entering India.
To be sure, the Chinese government claimed that an earthquake that struck southeastern Tibet in mid-November “might have led to the turbidity” in the
river
waters.
But even for oft-cited Bangladesh, scientists just this year showed that the country grows by 20 square kilometers each year, because
river
sedimentation win out over rising sea levels.
In her talk, Clinton evoked the ancient Chinese aphorism Tongzhou Gongji : “When on a common boat, cross the
river
peacefully together.”
This alludes to an ancient episode in which soldiers from the warring states of Wu and Yue found themselves on the same boat on a
river
in a storm and agreed to put down their arms to make a common passage.
And, as Deng Xiaoping famously noted of China’s reforms in the 1980’s, “We are feeling our way across the
river
over the stones.”
If Fish Could ScreamPRINCETON – When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a
river
or by the sea.
Indeed, China’s territorial grab in the South China Sea has been accompanied by a quieter grab of resources in transnational
river
basins.
Some 230,000 hectares of paddy rice cultivation has been destroyed just in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, where depleted
river
flows have led to saltwater intrusion from the South China Sea, rendering nearly 10% of the rice farms potentially infertile.
For example, if a factory leaks toxic chemicals into a
river
that I use to irrigate my farm, killing my crops, I can sue the factory owner.
Non-state actors control important parts of the two
river
basins.
If a supranational organization had been created, it could have introduced joint strategies to manage drought, coordinate crop patterns, develop common standards to monitor
river
flows, and implement investment plans to create livelihoods and develop water-treatment technologies.
The Water Cooperation Quotient, a measure of collaboration created by the Strategic Foresight Group, can help countries sharing
river
basins and lakes monitor the intensity of their cooperation.
Out of 263 shared
river
basins, only a quarter benefit from properly functioning collaborative organizations.
It is crucial that such organizations be extended to cover every shared
river
basin in the world by the SDGs’ target year, 2030.
If all developing countries with shared
river
basins embraced transboundary cooperation, their GDP growth easily could rise by a percentage point.
A global Marshall Plan for shared
river
basins might at first seem like an expensive proposition; but the cost of inaction – consider the threat to Europe alone posed by massive refugee inflows – easily could be several orders of magnitude higher.
Peace between the conflicting parties east of the Mediterranean and west of the Jordan
river
can and must be achieved through negotiations.
People are not organisms that are first made and then dipped in some culture, like Achilles in the
river
Styx.
They are showing that we can improve outcomes by planning our engineered infrastructure in a way that is compatible with the survival and health of
river
basins and watersheds.
The worst was only averted by the last-ditch agreement between the miners’ leader, Miron Cosma, and the Prime Minister, Radu Vasile, struck at a famous mediaeval monastery on the Olt
river.
If, or rather when, the
river
is dammed, it will help power the cities and factories of coastal China.
Commenting on the Jubilee’s
river
pageant and horse parade, historian Simon Schama talked to the BBC about “little boats and big ideas.”
Furthermore, the Americas are now almost free of
river
blindness, a parasitic infection spread by black flies that causes itching and, in severe cases, vision loss.
Conserving the world's wetlands – which also provide valuable services, including protection of coastal areas and
river
valleys from flooding – is also sensible, providing a tenfold return on each dollar spent.
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