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Rivers Worldwide Are Running Dry – Here’s Why And What We Can Do About It

Rivers across the world are running dry. Freshwater makes up a tiny fraction of all water on EarthLondon: Rivers around the world have been drying up recently. The Loire in France broke records in mid-August for its low water levels, while photos circulating online show the mighty Danube, Rhine, Yangtze and Colorado rivers all but reduced to trickles.It is not just rivers that are running low but the reservoirs they replenish, leading to water shortages in many parts of the world including the UK. Yet floods have wreaked havoc in many of these rivers in the last decade, in some cases only a few months before the recent drought. So what is happening to them?Climate change has many guises. The Earth system is interdependent, so when something changes, it cascades to affect lots of other t...