💧🌏 Greg CocksMar 3
US CONUS Rivers Of Dimension By Annual Flow – An Older (2013) But Still SO Useful Hydrologic Visualisation
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https://pacinst.org/american-rivers-a-graphic/ <-- shared technical post
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“... Several things stand out:
1) the massive flow of the mighty Mississippi and Columbia River systems
2) the paucity of major rivers in the western US, especially the southwestern US, where the only major rivers are the seriously over-tapped Colorado and Rio Grande Rivers
3) the local importance of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Rivers in California, which serve the state’s cities and agricultural regions…”
#visualisation #infographic #water #hydrographic #hydrology #US #USA #CONUS #flow #humanimpacts #gage #USGS #USGSgage #agriculture #transportation #rivers #waterresources #overuse #monitoring #planning #AmericanRivers #mapping #spatial #spatialanalysis #scale #symbology #proportional #symbology #bigriver #Colorado #Columbia #Mississippi #SanJoaquin #RioGrande #NHD #NationalHydrographyDataset
#PacificInstitute | #USGS | #AmericanRivers
Gerd_BrodowskiNov 12

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #westbank / #opt / #idf / #settlers / #violence / #waterconflict / #ngo

„Bombs, dogs, poison & heavy machinery were among the weapons used to attack Palestinians & their infrastructure at drinking water, irrigation & sanitation sites in the occupied West Bank & Gaza Strip on at least 90 occasions between January 2024 & mid-2025, according to the #PacificInstitute, a California-based nonpartisan thinktank tracking water conflicts.“

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/11/israel-attacks-palestine-water

Israelis attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years, data reveals

Armed forces and settlers used bombs, dogs, poison and machinery to attack people and infrastructure at key sites

The Guardian