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(10-22-2019, 09:35 AM)Styx38 Wrote: Just ten rivers are responsible for up to 95% of all river-borne plastic trash that ends up in the sea. 

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As this map shows, eight of the rivers are in Asia.



Four are solely in China:

• The Yangtze, which flows into the East China Sea.
• The Hai He and the Yellow River, both debouching in the Yellow Sea. 
• The Pearl River, going into the South China Sea.
  

Two others closely involve China:

• The Amur rises in Russia and flows into the Sea of Okhotsk, but for a large part of its course forms the border with China (where it’s called Heilong Jang). 
• The Mekong rises in China, but touches or crosses Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam on its way to the South China Sea.
  

Two flow through the Indian subcontinent:

• The Indus, which rises in China and crosses India, but mainly runs through Pakistan, ending in the Arabian Sea.
• The Ganges, flowing through India and Bangladesh, into the Bay of Bengal.
  

The two non-Asian rivers are both in Africa:

• The Nile, with two sources in Ethiopia (Blue Nile) and Rwanda (White Nile) and flowing through Uganda, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt towards the Mediterranean. 
• The Niger, rising in Guinea and flowing through Mali, Niger, Benin and Nigeria into the Gulf of Guinea.
  

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/these-10-rivers-carry-95-of-all-plastic-into-the-ocean

Just now, a tributary of the Brahmaptura (another major river of eastern India), that is the Burhi Dihing in Dibrugarh District, Assam State, bizarrely caught fire, allegedly due to a connected oil pipeline, leading to panic among locals. Locals said that crude oil from Oil India Limited, Duliajan plant came in a water pipe that was connected with the river. Villagers suspected that some miscreants set fire after the crude oil came into the river: https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/ri...2020-02-03, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city...890091.cms, https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/new...893479.cms, https://www.guwahatiplus.com/daily-news/...r-in-assam, https://www.business-standard.com/multim...-98931.htm

Credit: Hemantha Nath of India Today

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