Rivers
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as stream, creek, brook, rivulet, and rill. There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to geographic features, although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size. Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location; examples are "run" in …
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UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 10 December 2024 English
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its way into marine ecosystems, polluting lakes, rivers and seas, every year. Southeast Asia is a critical …
PCNS: Policy Center for the New South · 21 November 2024 English
A displaced person in Chad shared: “These displacements are observed in the localities of the two provinces [Lac and Hadjer-Lamis] but more severely in the villages and islands of the …
flooding, with 576 lives lost.16 The Logone and Chari Rivers have reached unprecedented levels, leading to extensive …
GAIA: Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives · 20 November 2024 English
This would be important in order to complete the drafting and agreement on treaty text including all the core obligations needed to end plastic pollution across the life cycle of …
Single-use glass requires themining of silica, harming rivers and coasts as well as biodiversity that depends …
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 18 November 2024 English
world’s treated wastewater is reused and around half of the world’s untreated wastewater still enters rivers, lakes, and seas. Wastewater is a growing health and environmental threat, accounting for almost …
of the world’s untreated wastewater still enters rivers, lakes, and seas. Wastewater is a growing health …
ACAPS · 18 November 2024 English
have closed Members of ethnic minority groups, including the Rohingya, face significant movement rivers and waterways in the areas they control. [...] The time-limited nature of TAs, coupled with lengthy …
including the Rohingya, face significant movement rivers and waterways in the areas they control. In central … As a result, fisherfolk have lost access to both rivers other townships, while recently displaced individuals …
World Bank Group · 14 November 2024 English
implementation plan to ensure ecological flows for key rivers (2024) (5) Provincial Dongting Lake total phosphorus …
ADB: Asian Development Bank · 13 November 2024 English
This paper describes the main changes taking place in satellite Earth Observation (EO), and captures the initial experiences of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and its developing member countries using …
infrastructure, primary roads, bare soil, water bodies, rivers, and wetlands. A standard classification scheme … mapping products includes the distribution of roads, rivers, and highly populated urban or peri-urban areas …
ACAPS · 13 November 2024 English
Regions and number of people affected by Trami and Kong-rey by 11 November • On 22 October 2024, Tropical Cyclone Trami (Kristine) brought heavy rain on Luzon, Mindanao, and Visayas …
rapid in low-lying areas with widely developed rivers and highly concentrated populations. After a heavy … national lying streets often become waste-filled rivers in minutes (Wang et. al 17/12/2021). poverty line …
ADB: Asian Development Bank · 13 November 2024 English
This report assesses how Indian ADB-backed projects to construct and upgrade some 45,000 km of rural roads are improving connectivity, opening socioeconomic opportunities, and transforming communities.
evaluation of the topography, terrain, forests, rivers, socio- environmentally sensitive locations, and …
World Bank Group · 12 November 2024 English
waters. Article No. 1 considers that the waters of rivers and their direct and indirect tributaries, from … conservation of trees, especially on the banks of rivers and at the sources of water. It prohibits the … felling of trees located less than 5m away from rivers, as well as their tributaries.ESSA – PfR MAG – …