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Climate Change Drying Up Big Rivers, Study Finds [1]

Rivers in some of the world's most populated regions are losing water, many because of climate change, researchers reported on Tuesday.

Affected rivers include the Yellow River in northern China, the Ganges in India, the Niger in West Africa, and the Colorado in the southwestern United States.

Publication Date: 
22/04/2009
Maggie Fox [2]
Planet Ark (Australia) [3]
Tags:
Water Resources [4], Surface Water [5], Rivers [6], Ganga [7], Mississippi [8], Irrigation [9], Climate Change [10], China [11], India [12]

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