Untitled Slide

• 1. Rivers are often the endpoint for much of our
• Industrial and urban pollution.
• 2.China is proceeding with a massive $60 billion
• Project to transfer water from the Yangtze River
• Basin in the south to the water-short north.

Untitled Slide

• If completed it would be the largest
• Construction project on Earth and would
• Transfer 1.5 trillion cubic feet of water per year.

Untitled Slide

• 3. 84% of the Nile's flow originates in
• Ethiopia, while the country faces
• Famine due to drought.
• 4. Rivers have also been manipulated
• For irrigation.

TRIVIA QUESTION

ANSWER