River basin

Mekong River Basin Map

A river’s flow is its heartbeat. Freshwater plants and animals have evolved with, and intimately depend upon, natural patterns of hydrological variability. Healthy rivers have both an unobstructed linear flow – materials can flow downstream, fish can migrate upstream – and also a lateral flow that allows high waters to spread into floodplains, nourishing the...

Ongoing drought - and increasing temperatures - have reduced water flow in the Colorado River, with more dramatic reductions expected. This ongoing, unprecedented event threatens water supplies in cities in the U.S. West and some of the most productive agricultural lands anywhere in the world.

The Amazon river basin covers about 40% of South America and is home to the world's largest rain forest.

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Major River Basins in India

Ganga river in India

The Tana is the longest river wholly within Kenya. The country is also one of the 11 sharing the waters of the Nile.

Godavari – Krishna – Mahanadi. Rivers, their tributaries and River Basins, Seonath, Ib river, Hasdeo Penganga, Wainganga, Pranahita, Tundabhadra, Bhima