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World's rivers are drying up from extreme weather

A painful lack of rain and relentless heat waves are drying up rivers in the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

The human-caused climate crisis is fueling extreme weather across the globe, which isn't just impacting rivers, but also people. Most people on the planet depend on rivers in some way, whether for drinking water, irrigating food, energy or shipping goods.