Friday, August 30, 2013

Mountains of Concrete: Dam Building in the Himalayas | International Rivers

Mountains of Concrete: Dam Building in the Himalayas | International Rivers: "Mountains of Concrete: Dam Building in the Himalayas

There will always be abundant snow and glaciers on the highest mountains of the world, the Himalayas. This snow will always feed the Indus and Ganges rivers and forever supply water to millions of people in South Asia and China.

These statements may no longer be true. Our warming climate is changing the Himalayas faster than any other region of the world. The mountains’ mighty glaciers, the source of most large Asian rivers, are melting.
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