Stop worlds rivers from running dry

Some of the developing world's largest rivers are drying up because of climate change, threatening water supplies in some of the most populous places on Earth, say scientists.

Researchers from the US-based National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) analysed data combined with computer models to assess flow in 925 rivers nearly three quarters of the world's running water supply  between 1948 and 2004.

A third of these had registered a change in flow and most of them  including the Niger in West Africa, the Ganges in South Asia and the Yellow River in china  were dryer.

"Reduced run-off is increasing the pressure on freshwater resources in much of the world, especially with more demand for water as population increases. Freshwater being a vital resource, the downward trends are a great concern," said Aiguo Dai, a scientist at NCAR and lead author of the research.Rivers are losing water for a variety of possible reasons, say the researchers, including the installation of dams and the use of water for agriculture. But in many cases the decrease in flow is because of climate change, which is altering rainfall patterns and increasing evaporation because of higher temperatures.

"The prospects generally are for rainfalls, when they occur, to be heavier and with greater risk of flooding and with longer dryer spells in between, so water management becomes much more difficult," Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at NCAR

The Euphrates is drying up. Strangled by the water policies of Iraqs neighbors, Turkey and Syria; a two-year drought; and years of misuse by Iraq and its farmers, the river is significantly smaller than it was just a few years ago. Some officials worry that it could soon be half of what it is now.

The shrinking of the Euphrates, a river so crucial to the birth of civilization that the Book of Revelation prophesied its drying up as a sign of the end times,

A river named Perath (Hebrew for Euphrates) is one of the four rivers that flow from the Garden of Eden according to Genesis 2:14. This Hebrew word, derived from either the word stream or to break forth, has been translated as Euphrates. It is the fourth river, after the Pishon, the Gihon, and the Tigris (Hebrew name is Hiddekel), to form from the river flowing out of the garden. The river of the same name marked one of the boundaries of the land promised by God to Abraham and his descendants (Isaac, Jacob, etc). In the Hebrew Bible, it is often referred to simply as The River (ha-nahar). (Genesis 15:18).

God creates the Euphrates: The name of the third river is Tigris, the one that flows east of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates (Genesis 2:14).

The Euphrates marks the north-eastern border of the land God promises to Abraham: To your descendants I give this land from the wadi of Egypt to the Great River, the river Euphrates (Genesis 15:18 in the Jerusalem Bible)

God tells the Israelites to go to the Promised Land: Start out and make your way to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, the hill country, the Shephelah, the Negeb, the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and the Lebanon, as far as the Great River, the river Euphrates (Deuteronomy 1:7).

God (through Moses) promises the Israelites the Promised Land: very place where you set the soles of your feet shall be yours. Your borders shall run from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea (Deuteronomy 11:24).

The Lord says Your King will make peace among the nations;/He will rule from sea to sea,/from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth. Zechariah 9:10

In Revelation 16:12, it is prophesied that the Euphrates will dry up in preparation for the Battle of Armageddon: And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates. And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. The number of the mounted troops was two hundred million(china?). I heard their number.Revelation 9:14