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Article: Drying up of big rivers.
- Article from:
- The New Nation (Dhaka, India)
- Article date:
- May 22, 2009
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Dhaka, May 22 -- ACCORDING to a recent Reuters news agency report from Washington, rivers in some of the world's most populated regions are losing water, many because of climate change. Researchers at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado reported in the 'American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate', that the affected rivers include the Yellow River in northern China, the Ganges in South Asia, the Niger in West Africa and the Colorado in the south-western United States. Reduced runoff, as researchers mentioned in their study, is increasing the pressure on freshwater resources in much of the world. Human intervention is adding to the ...