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  2. Six Rivers National Forest - Wikipedia

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    The Six Rivers National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in the northwestern corner of California. It was established on June 3rd, 1947 by U.S. President Harry S. Truman from portions of Klamath, Siskiyou and Trinity National Forests. Its over one million acres (4,000 km 2) of land contain a variety of ecosystems and 137,000 acres (550 ...

  3. Indus Waters Treaty - Wikipedia

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    The World Bank proposal was transformed from a basis of settlement to a basis for negotiation and the talks continued, stop and go, for the next six years. [50] One of the last stumbling blocks to an agreement concerning financing for the construction of canals and storage facilities that would transfer water from the western rivers to Pakistan.

  4. List of rivers of India - Wikipedia

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    Purna. Godavari. Krishna. Kaveri. Penna River. Rivers falling into Arabian sea jointly as Panjnaad Sutlej, Vyas, Ravi, Chenab, Jhehlam, flowing through The Punjab, a province shared by Modern India and Pakistan. River Sindh or Sindhu is flowing alone from Himalaya in between these rivers and Afghanistan.

  5. River valley civilization - Wikipedia

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    River valley civilization. A river valley civilization is an agricultural nation or civilization situated beside and drawing sustenance from a river. A river gives the inhabitants a reliable source of water for drinking and agriculture. Some other possible benefits for the inhabitants are fishing, fertile soil due to annual flooding, and ease ...

  6. Six Nations of the Grand River - Wikipedia

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    Six Nations (or Six Nations of the Grand River, French: Réserve des Six Nations, Seneca: Ye:i’ Níónöëdzage:h) is demographically the largest First Nations reserve in Canada. As of the end of 2017, it has a total of 27,276 members, 12,848 of whom live on the reserve. [2] These nations are the Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Seneca and ...

  7. Mekong - Wikipedia

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    The Mekong or Mekong River is a trans-boundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia.It is the world's twelfth-longest river and the third-longest in Asia with an estimated length of 4,909 km (3,050 mi) and a drainage area of 795,000 km 2 (307,000 sq mi), discharging 475 km 3 (114 cu mi) of water annually.

  8. Baitarani River - Wikipedia

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    Bay of Bengal [1] • average. 903 m 3 /s (31,900 cu ft/s) [1] The Baitarani (also spelled Vaitarani) is one of six major rivers of Odisha, India. Venerated in popular epics and legends, the Baitarani River is a source of water for agricultural irrigation. The coastal plain of Odisha has the name of "Hexadeltaic region" or the "Gift of Six ...

  9. List of major rivers of India - Wikipedia

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    The major rivers in this system are (in order of merging, from west to east) Ganges - 2,525 kilometres (1,569 mi) [8] Starting from Gangotri Glacier, Uttarakhand, India. Chambal - 1,024 kilometres (636 mi) Flows through Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and merges into Yamuna in Uttar Pradesh. Betwa - 676 kilometres (420 mi) Not Himalayan river, covers ...