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After the monsoon, as the waters of these rivers begin to recede and the sand banks expose themselves, it becomes the terrain for the city.
It sits on the banks of these rivers.
That's because 10 of their major rivers originate in the Hindu Kush Himalaya mountains.
These rivers provide critical water for agriculture and drinking water to more than 1.6 billion people living downstream.
But when glaciers melt, when monsoons turn severe, those rivers will obviously flood, so there will be deluges when water is not required and droughts will be very common, when water is desperately required.
In the 1960s, the misleadingly named “Green Revolution” introduced chemical fertilizers and pesticides and the damming of rivers to India.
AF: That's in the Philippines, and you know, there's a lot of rivers, ladies and gentlemen, which look exactly like that.
CA: So plastic is thrown into the rivers, and from there, of course, it ends up in the ocean.
Dense forests and tall mountains made overland travel difficult, but long coastlines and numerous rivers, lakes, and fjords provided a viable alternative.
Rivers shrank and crops shriveled in the fields.
Predatory deer dogs frolicked along ancient rivers, while their relatives returned to the ocean to become the first otter-like whales.
She picks the water up from there, desalinates it, for free, transports it over there, and dumps it onto the mountains, rivers, and streams.
She was born in Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and the birthplace of the first cities and high cultures.
So today, we pump millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the air, we dump plastics, fertilizers and industrial waste into the rivers and oceans, and we cut down forests that absorb CO2.
There are no ponds, streams, rivers, lakes, nothing like that.
And, of course, watch it fall from the sky and flow in our wonderful rivers, but for several other reasons as well.
This crocodile, which grows to almost 20 feet long in the northern rivers, and this charismatic snake, the king cobra.
All the major rivers in south India are sourced in the Western Ghats, the chain of hills running along the west coast of India.
People scoop water out of the Chambal and drink it, something you wouldn't do in most north Indian rivers.
Because these rivers are the lifeblood of people all along their course.
But out on the rivers there are still millions of people who are in really bad shape.
The corporates, the artists, the wildlife nuts, the good old everyday folks can actually bring these rivers back.
People have used this software to map everything from roads to rivers, from schools to local businesses, and video stores to the corner store.
It's a river that carries with it all the things that rivers tend to carry these days: chemical contaminants, pesticide runoff.
But there is intriguing evidence that suggests that the early history of Mars there may have been rivers and fast flowing water.
Mars had rivers, Mars had lakes, but more important Mars had planetary-scale oceans.
And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor.
It runs down the rivers, and it feeds the plankton, the little microscopic plant cells in the coastal water.
And so here I introduce something, the set of rivers of a plane-filling curve.
We cannot continue consuming water as we do today, with 25 percent of world rivers not even reaching the ocean.
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