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We work to protect rivers and rights, and promote real solutions for meeting water, energy and flood management needs around the globe.
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- Map item number 7 Lancang
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- Map item number 9 Yangtze
- Map item number 10 Yarlung Tsangpo / Yarlung Zangbo / Yalu Zangbu
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- Map item number 19 Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna
- Map item number 20 Indus
- Map item number 21 Narmada
- Map item number 22 Teesta
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Rights Of Rivers Global map
Learn more about the growing, global Rights of Rivers movement. This new map highlights cases, different approaches, and river defenders…
Press Release | Riverscope: A New Geospatial Tool To Assess the True Costs and Financial Risks of Hydropower
For immediate release OXFORD, UK and OAKLAND, US, August 25, 2021—A new geospatial assessment tool for hydropower, Riverscope, launched today….
Mission, Vision & Strategy
Free-flowing rivers work like arteries, providing the world’s ecosystems with critical freshwater resources that sustain a higher biodiversity per square mile than almost any other ecosystem. Rivers are crucial to the food security, livelihoods, and cultural traditions of millions, especially indigenous and traditional peoples around the world. Yet freshwater ecosystems are being fragmented, diverted and polluted.
Learn more about International Rivers
Only one-third of the world’s rivers remain free-flowing, and less than 10% of the world’s river basins are protected.
