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πŸ”— 2022 Oder Environmental Disaster

πŸ”— International relations πŸ”— Germany πŸ”— Disaster management πŸ”— Poland πŸ”— Current events πŸ”— Rivers

The 2022 Oder environmental disaster is a mass die-off of fish, beavers and other wildlife in the Oder river in Poland and Germany, causing a health and environmental crisis in large parts of the country and subsequently a political scandal.

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πŸ”— River Ranking by Water Flow Rate

πŸ”— Lists πŸ”— Geography πŸ”— Rivers

This article lists rivers by their average discharge measured in descending order of their water flow rate. Here, only those rivers whose discharge is more than 2,000Β m3/s (71,000Β cuΒ ft/s) are shown, as this list does not include rivers with a water flow rate of less than 2,000Β m3/s (71,000Β cuΒ ft/s). It can be thought of as a list of the biggest rivers on earth, measured by a specific metric.

For context, the volume of an Olympic-size swimming pool is 2,500 m3. The average flow rate at the mouth of the Amazon is sufficient to fill more than 83 such pools each second. The average flow of all the rivers in this list adds up to 1,192,134 m3/s.

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πŸ”— Great Man-Made River

πŸ”— Africa πŸ”— Water πŸ”— Rivers πŸ”— Africa/Libya

The Great Man-Made River (GMMR, Ψ§Ω„Ω†Ω‡Ψ± Ψ§Ω„Ψ΅Ω†Ψ§ΨΉΩŠ Ψ§Ω„ΨΉΨΈΩŠΩ…) is a network of pipes that supplies fresh water obtained from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System fossil aquifer across Libya. It is the world's largest irrigation project. The project utilizes a pipeline system that pumps water from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System from down south in Libya to cities in the populous Libyan northern Mediterranean coast including Tripoli and Benghazi. The water covers a distance of up to 1,600 kilometers and provides 70% of all freshwater used in Libya.

According to its website, it is the largest underground network of pipes (2,820 kilometres (1,750Β mi)) and aqueducts in the world. It consists of more than 1,300 wells, most more than 500 m deep, and supplies 6,500,000 m3 of fresh water per day to the cities of Tripoli, Benghazi, Sirte and elsewhere. The late Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi described it as the "Eighth Wonder of the World".

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