5 Big Threats to Rivers - EcoWatch
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Business
If we needed any more motivation to help save our ailing rivers, it should have come with the findings of a recent study (see attached), which revealed that “Nowhere is the biodiversity crisis more acute than in freshwater ecosystems.”
Rivers, lakes and inland wetlands cover 1% of the Earth but provide homes for 10% of all its species, including one-third of all vertebrates. And many of those species are imperiled — some 27% of the nearly 30,000 freshwater species so far assessed by the IUCN Red List. This includes nearly one-third of all freshwater fish.
How did things get so bad? For some species it’s a single action — like building a dam. But for most, it’s a confluence of factors — an accumulation of harm — that builds for years or decades.
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https://www.ecowatch.com/river-threats-biodiversity.htmlMedia
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- River Studies
- Performance Benchmarking of River
- River Basin management
- River Restoration
- River Engineering
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