Yushu is home to the headwaters of three of Asia's greatest rivers, the Yangtze, Mekong and Yellow, all of which are used for hydropower generation.
The park's landscape is varied and complex, being the source of headwaters of seven major rivers, and featuring glaciers, rocky mountains, gorges, waterfalls, and passes.
Through its political control of Tibet, China lords over the headwaters of seven of Asia's great rivers, depended upon by 1.5 billion people.
The region contains the headwaters of ten river basins; the Koshi basin lies within the Ganges basin (Source: International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development; the boundary of the Koshi basin is taken from ICIMOD's Koshi Basin Programme).
The Horton Plains are the headwaters of three major Sri Lankan rivers, the Mahaweli, Kelani, and Walawe.
11 33 a.m.: Molly Messick of Wyoming Public Radio: "So what are the consequences of losing whitebark pine in the ecosystem?" Answer: First, there will be major adverse impacts to the watersheds, especially since the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is the headwaters of three major drainages of the West: the Snake/Columbia, the Green/Colorado, and the Yellowstone/Missouri/Mississippi.
Algonquin Park covers an area of 7725 km2 and encompasses the headwaters of five major watersheds flowing into both the Ottawa River and the Great Lakes.
radiation is native to around 40 lakes in the headwaters of three major European river drainages: the Rhine, Rhône and Danube [ 22].
It's easy to forget just how parched Britain was by the end of March, after two virtually rainless winters: uniquely, the headwaters of all seven of the chalk rivers in the Chiltern Hills had run dry, and as April arrived, water companies in the south began imposing restrictions on water use.
