10 Most Endangered Rivers

The 2007 report of the World Wide Fund for Nature says 10 of the
world's mightiest rivers are dying

1. Salween, Nujiang or Nu River ­Location: Shared by China, Myanmar and Thailand, it flows from the Tibetan Plateau. Major threat: Dams

2. La Plata - Location: It crosses five countries. Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Bolivia. Major threat:
Dams and navigation.

3. Danube - Location: Covers 19 coun­trieds including Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, Romania, Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Swit­zerland and Ukraine. Major threat:
Navigation

4. Rio Grande - Location: Forms a bor­der between the US (Texas) and Mexico and finally opens into a sandy delta at the Gulf of Mexico. Major threat: Wa­ter over-extraction.
5. Ganges - Location: From central Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal. Major threat: Water over-extraction.
6. Murray-Darling - Location: Covers four Australian states. Major threat: In­vasive species.
7. Indus - Location: Spans Afghani­stan, Pakistan, India and China. Major threat: climate change.
B. Nile - Location: Basin falls within 10 countries-Sudan, Ethiopia, Egypt, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Dem­ocratic Republic of Congo and Eritrea.
9. Yangtze - Location: It rises in the mountains of Qinghai Province on the Tibetan plateau and opens at Shanghai into the East China Sea. Major threat:
Pollution.
10. Mekong - Location : Originating from China's Qinghai province near Ti­bet, it flows through Cambodia into the South China Sea. Major threat: Over­fishing.