Today only a third of the world’s 177 large rivers (1,000 km and longer) remain free-flowing, unimpeded by dams or other barriers.
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- Globally, the agricultural sector consumes about 70% of the planet's accessible freshwater – more than twice that of industry (23%), and dwarfing municipal use (8%).
- There is more life in one acre of a healthy wetland than there is in one acre of almost any other kind of habitat.
- The Danube Delta is the second largest river delta in Europe, after the Volga.