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America's 10 Most Threatened Rivers

Environment News ServiceMay 18, 2011.

Here's American Rivers' list of our most at risk rivers and why they're threatened.

Drinking Our Rivers Dry: The Wine Industry's Assault on Water Resources

Will Parrish, CounterPunch. February 7, 2011.

In recent decades, the once-simple act of protecting new bud growth on grape vines from frigid temperatures has become tantamount to a war on rivers.

World's Rivers in Crisis: U.S. and Europe Face Highest Threat Levels

Stephen Leahy, IPS News. October 7, 2010.

A new report on the health of our rivers reveals that "the richer the country, the greater the threat to river systems."

America's 10 Most Endangered Rivers

Environment News ServiceApril 10, 2009.

While California's Sacramento-San Joaquin river system took an unfortunate first place, rivers from Alaska to South Carolina made the list.

Damming Patagonia's Rivers: A Dirty Energy Business

Aaron Sanger, International Relations Center. May 27, 2008.

A consortium of gigantic transnational companies is hoping to turn one of the most pristine rivers in the world into three "hydropower" lakes.

The Rivers Need You

Tara Lohan, AlterNet. March 12, 2008.

Join the International Day of Action for Rivers on March 13-14.

Melissa Harris-Perry to Rachel Maddow: GOP Clean Water Act Cut Preys on Ailing State Economies Desperate for Corporate Income

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, December 31, 1969.