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rivers die? It all depends on how the people of the world relate to this problem of global warming and climate change and how they go about trying to conserve water, the ecosystems, and the environment. It might also depend on evolutionary forces.

According to research scientists at the Met Office Hadley Centre, the University of Exeter, and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, the increase of carbon dioxide levels will cause plants to use less

water, which will allow more water for rivers causing "river flow increases." [2]

So will some rivers dry up and new rivers form? Or will all rivers dry up? Without human intervention into the detrimental causes of environmental pollution, global warming, and climate change, the rivers will continually dry up. However without any intervention whatsoever, the rivers will dry up, and new rivers may form.

Didn't the great Mississippi River form millions of years ago through the melting of glacial ice caps? So isn't it possible that the glacial ice caps melting in the Himalayan Mountains could foster new rivers forming in China?

However we are reading that the glacial ice caps melting in China due to global warming are causing rivers to dry up. But the Himalayan glaciers are melting at an "unprecedented rate" and the rivers are drying up due to temperature rising and "over-exploitation" of water systems. [3]

So will our great rivers die? Our Great Rivers are the Mississippi, the Thames, the Amazon, the Zambezi, the Yangtze, and the Volga. They are still intact and sometimes overflowing. New waterways are continually formed due to changes in rainfall and temperatures. These will empty into the great rivers.

But still man must make every endeavor to not overuse our natural resources and find more efficient methods for power and irrigation. Dams and hydroelectric power are helping to kill our rivers.

We need our Great Rivers for the survival of the human race and the animal kingdom.

References:

[1] http://news.nationalgeographic .com/news/2006/03/0303_060303_ africa_2.html

[2] www.sciencedaily.com/releases/ 2007/09/070905083617.htm

[3] www.commondreams.org/archive/2 007/06/20/1993/

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