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Time is running out for the world’s great rivers

Overfishing, industrial pollution and dams are squeezing life from once revered waterways that have sustained civilisations for centuries

David Profumo
The Yellow River snakes through Tangke grassland in China’s Sechuan Province. Getty Images
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