Climate change and in some cases, pollution, are the reasons that rivers are running dry all over the world.
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Fortunately, that is not the case. Earth contains huge quantities of water in its oceans, lakes, rivers, the atmosphere, and believe it or not, in the rocks of the inner Earth. Over millions of years, much of this water is recycled between the inner Earth, the oceans and rivers, and the atmosphere.
In the Netherlands, about 5 million people get their drinking water from the Rhine. Gerards Stroomberg, of RIWA, the association that represents the interests of drinking water companies that use the Rhine as a source of water, said “What we see is that the substances we encounter are increasingly difficult to remove.
The Euphrates River has been drying up for years, but why? Some of the many reasons why are the multiple dams, droughts, water policies, and misuse. Many families in Iraq that rely on the river are desperate for water.