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n Posted on March 14, 2016
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nNonquestion about it, people need rivers. The need for a source of freshnwater, and the use of running water for transport and energy, makenrivers super important to people. And that is why most large citiesnand many smaller cities and towns are located on rivers.
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| Not only are most large cities founded on the banks of rivers, entire empires have grown up around rivers! Above, the Ancient Egyptian Empire developed along the |
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| Four European capitals are located on the Danube River: Vienna, Austria; Bratislava, Slovakia; Budapest, Hungary; and Belgrade, Serbia. |
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nOkay, people need rivers…
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nButndo rivers need people?
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nManynrivers in the world have not just been used by people, they’ve beennabused by people!
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nSome rivers have been dammed up or diverted tonirrigation channels or other commercial or private waterways.
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nSomenrivers have been polluted by factories dumping chemicals or hot waterndirectly into them; other rivers have been polluted by run-off ofnpesticides from fields and lawns.
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nDammed, diverted, and pollutednrivers need people – because they need us to take action to undonthe harm we have done to them!
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Accordingnto Young People’s Trust for the Environment, more than 97% ofnthe Earth’s water is salty. Most of the remaining water is frozen innthe polar ice caps.
Accordingnto Young People’s Trust for the Environment, more than 97% ofnthe Earth’s water is salty. Most of the remaining water is frozen innthe polar ice caps. n
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nSo ALL the fresh liquid water in all the rivers,nlakes, underground reservoirs and springs, and even the fresh liquidnwater in the atmosphere and clouds – all of that crucial fresh liquid water makes up less than 1% of the world’s water!
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nKeeping it clean isnpretty important!
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nThenInternational Rivers website has a map you can use to findnActions for Rivers.
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nAndnCreate the Good has anuseful step-by-step article about how to hold a river clean-up. We’vendone it – it was very satisfying!
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nAlsonon this date:
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nOrigami grandmaster Akira Yoshizawa’s birthday
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nPhysicist Albert Einstein’s birthday
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nNationalnPotato Chip Day
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nSummernDay in Albania
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nWhitenDay in Japan
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