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 · 2 May 2024 English

House, Beirut, Lebanon. Background Blue ecosystems, the water continuum, from oceans to seas and rivers, have been a source of food, leisure, exploration, and a natural carbon sink all throughout human

ecosystems, the water continuum, from oceans to seas and rivers, have been a source of food, leisure, exploration


MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 25 April 2024 English

During the last ten years, several issues such as the Arab Spring, the emergence and spread of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the COVID-19 pandemic, oil price …

interior of the Eurasian continent through navigable rivers, and that the access to the Ocean is through a


Australian Human Rights Commission · 24 April 2024 English

I make the following recommendations: Recommendation 1 The Commission recommends that the Department progress each of the elements of the Alternatives to Held Detention program, including: • the development of …

provider of specialised psychiatric care, and Pine Rivers Private Hospital, a mental health hospital. He


GFI: Green Finance Institute · 24 April 2024 English

The objective of this project was to assess the materiality of nature-related risks to the UK financial sector both in the near-term and the longer-term. At least half of global …

proportion of surface water bodies (including rivers, canals, estuaries, coastal and lakes) in good from surface water sources, such as reservoirs and rivers. Manufacturing, agriculture, and power generation Environment Agency projects that, by 2050, some rivers could have between 50 and 80 percent less water


DEval: Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungs-Zusammenarbeit · 22 April 2024 English

Communications Earth & Environment, doi:10.1038/s43247-024-01356-0

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EC: European Commission · 22 April 2024 English

While focusing on a comprehensive overview of conditions in Europe, the European State of the Climate (ESOTC) also looks at conditions for the Arctic and provides an overview of the …

and August. Drought conditions were seen in some rivers, such as the Ebro, which saw near-record low flows less than a day in some locations One third of rivers in Europe exceeded the ‘high’ flood threshold 16% affected by flooding in Europe in 2023 In May, 23 rivers in Italy burst their banks, with floods covering


Western Australian Local Government Association · 22 April 2024 English

The risk of erosion is directly proportional to the intensity of rainfall, the amount of soil exposed to water, and the slope of the exposed land. [...] Under Schedule 7 …

Sediment Task Force TEER Tamar Estuary and Esk Rivers Program WALGA Western Australian Local Government appropriate management adjacent to the Swan and Canning Rivers: A management plan detailing how risk of drainage https://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/Environment/Rivers-and-Coast/Erosion-and-Sediment-Control Figure 7: Derwent Estuary Program and the Tamar Estuary and Esk Rivers Program have developed a guideline ‘Erosion and utrient-Survey- 2022.pdf Tamar Estuary and Esk Rivers (TEER) Program & Derwent Estuary Program, 2023


WWF Indonesia · 22 April 2024 English

The role is to identify these projects and to engage with the relevant stakeholders as well as to work with the relevant team such as the ESSF team and thematic/ …

health of critical ecosystems – from water basins to rivers, tropical rainforests, marshland and mangroves


ActionAid Association (India) · 21 April 2024 English

Definition of Construction Workers The definition of construction workers in the Building and Other Construction Workers Act, 1996 should be amended and expanded in line with supply and value chains …

greenwashing. >> Establish nature’s rights: Recognize that rivers, forests, and other natural entities have a right rejuvenation, and development of mangroves along rivers and the sea coast; protection of flood plains,


ActionAid Association (India) · 19 April 2024 English

Beyond the scheme-based commitments which some state governments and the central government have given in the form of urban employment schemes or the rural employment guarantee act << 2 >> …

Government of Bihar ended the taxation on fishing in rivers applicable to small scale fish workers. This provision


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