Absorbing images of rivers around the world

Beautiful tendrils fill the now dry Colorado River delta.

Aerial view of the Colorado River reservoir and fields near Meeker.

Peering from a decoy, a hunter lifts his head above the water.

Sukkur is a famous city of Pakistan , located on the west bank of River Indus. One of the landmarks of the city are Lansdowne and Ayub Bridges for the Road and Rail Traffic.Indus is one of the major rivers of the south Asia . It harboured one of the oldest civilisation the "Indus Civilisation". Moen jo daro and Harappa were the two oldest cities once thrived on the Indus river Bank and still is the life line of the Pakistan .

The Amu Daria shortly before drying out in the Aral Sea. In Moynaq town, former fishing port on the Aral Sea, now 112 miles from shore. Since 1960's the Aral Sea has been drained of 75% of its water, because of the diversion of upstream rivers that are used for cotton plantation. It use to be the 4th largest lake in the world. The resulting decertification is accelerating dramatically global warming. High salinity means no more fish. Anthrax and rabbies test were also done in a former island in the sea that is now linked to the shore.

The Syr Darya river near Tashkent. The river feeds the North Aral Sea, which has grown dramatically since the construction of a dam that now divides the Northern part of the sea (in Kazakhstan) from the southern part (in Uzbekistan).

The Rio Grande marks the border with the US and Mexico on the Adams Ranch near Big Bend National Park. The Adams Ranch is a major parcel of land that shares the US/Mexico border. There is no fence or any sort of man made barrier in this region. The border is marked by the Rio Grande river. The proposed fence would devastate the rich culture and wildlife corridor that this region represents.

Algae colours the conflence of the Rio Grande and Arroyo San Carlos.

Great Wall of China, UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the Yellow River in the Tengger desert at Shapotou near Zhongwei, Ningxia Province, China, Asia.

Strong tides are seen during the fifth-round sand-washing operation to clear up the sediment-laden Yellow River at the section of the Xiaolangdi Reservoir. This round of operation is estimated to take more than 20 days with a maximum discharged water flow of 3500 cubic metres per second. Over 300 million tons of sand from the lower Yellow River have been flushed into the sea during the previous four sand-washing operations.

Saminur, 30, centre, works in his field in Kaunia, Rangpur district, Rajshahi division, Bangladesh on Dec. 1, 2008. He lost three acres of rice during a severe Monga season in 2005 when the Tista River eroded away his crop and land. Three years later Saminur provides food for his family by planting in the river that took his livelihood away, this time on a sandbar located in the middle of the Tista River. The sandy islands of the Tista and Jamuna river cause massive loss of crops each year for farmers and at times creating famine in this part of Bangladesh that happens during a period called the Monga season.

Most of Victoria and New South Wales in Australia has been in the grip of an unprecedented drought for the last ten years. River levels have dropped and reservoirs are at a fraction of their capacity. Lake Hume is the largest reservoir in Australia and was set up to provide irrigation water for farms further down the Murray Basin and drinking water for Adelaide. On the day this photograph was taken it was at 19.6% capacity. By the end of the summer of 2009 it dropped to 2.1 % capacity. Such impacts of the drought are liekly to worsen as a result of climate change.

The mouth of the Murray River where a dredge keeps the pathway open.