"Our forests and the headwaters could be contaminated," says Raimundo Mean Mayoruna, president of the General Mayoruna Organization (OGM) in Brazil.
"[They] may affect traditional Matsés territory, along the Brazil-Peru border, and isolated indigenous peoples in both countries by polluting headwaters and the River Javari itself," the letter states.
Water levels in that region's vast Columbia river basin remain close to normal thanks to heavier precipitation along its headwaters in British Columbia, according to the Bonneville Power Administration, which delivers power to Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana.
In addition, the language of the agreement protects Charles Hurwitz the boss of Maxxam, the parent company of Pacific Lumber since a hostile takeover in 1986—from future lawsuits over Headwaters.
This is where the missionary David Livingstone and the journalist-cum-explorer Henry Morton Stanley spent two nights in 1871, where the headwaters of the lake were discovered, and where, by some reckonings, the European race to control the heart of Africa really began.But it was an area that no one much coveted.
The research, led by Juan Li of Peking University and sponsored by the wildcat protection group Panthera, focused on the snow leopard's habitat on the Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve, a 360,000 sq km area in north-western China that holds the headwaters of the Mekong, Yellow and Yangzte Rivers.
The Pakistanis fear Indian control over the headwaters of the Indus.
Adding her data to that from known and studied tells, she was able to tell, as it were, the story of the Old Kingdom's demise, and its connection with climate change.Though Egyptian agriculture was (and still is) based on irrigation, the flow of the Nile is controlled ultimately by rainfall patterns at its headwaters.
This would deploy tricky engineering at great altitude to transfer water from the headwaters of the Yangzi to the upper reaches of the Yellow river across the Tibetan plateau.
The part of central Africa he was investigating, round the headwaters of the Nile and the Great Lakes, was the darkest part of the continent's dark heart.
Instead, Metropolitan Atlanta sits high up in the ACF basin, about 80 miles from the headwaters of the Chattahoochee.
