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Dried rivers of China crying sans tears, war over water begins!

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China is fast becoming a dry land, thanks to global warming that is draining out life out of rivers.. It is often surmised that as temperatures swell, all glaciers on the towering mountains and polar areas would melt submerging everything that come in its way. However, we little realized that once mercury rises, it would automatically desiccate the rivers off the water. Than where does the question of submerging arise? But, yes coastal areas would still get inundated owing to their proximity to larger water bodies like oceans.

China’s unrelenting development in the form of industrial expansion and growth is exposing environment to global warming. Big industrial houses are not merely suffocating air, but manufacturing wastes flowing into the rivers are also choking water bodies, draining them of fresh water supplies, thus disenabling water supplies to the thirsty millions. Consequently, risking everyone from aerial to terrestrial to marine organisms.

satellite catches china floods

It is surprising that despite global warming producing torrential rains that have been pounding China for many months, wetlands have shrunk, lakes dried, ponds parched and rivers have choked. Remote sensing satellites have caught images of this calamity that is looming large over the country. It has been found that wetlands and marshes on the cold Qinghai-Tibet plateau that are the source of the Yangtze and Yellow rivers have shrunk beyond 30% during the last 40 years. On the other hand, several river bodies are battling an algae outbreak that is further contaminating the rivers and producing toxicants harmful to living beings.

The water war begins

The present situation of China can be synchronized with the saying, ‘Water water everywhere not a drop to drink’. Is it the beginning of the water war?

It is not just China, but the entire world exposed to the venom of global warming, as more and more dust storms, winds, hail, torrents have been predicted alongside the whitewash of the entire glaciers. It is just the beginning of a tragedy, which if remained uncontrolled would soon turn into a catastrophe.

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Via: Reuters

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