SCIENCE17 - All About Rivers
I’m not really sure how I came to the subject of rivers for a blog article. I do know that in the course of my blogging over the last five and half years, rivers kept coming up in both my history and travel articles, where I came to an appreciation of both their importance to world history and their beauty. When I started looking into the subject of rivers, I found a lot of interesting stuff that I didn’t know, so I decided to write this article and share what I found. After a short introduction, I will discuss the anatomy of a river, rivers through history, rivers of the world, rivers as dynamic systems, human intervention on rivers, and conclude with some interesting facts about rivers. I will list my principal sources at the end. Introduction A river is natural stream of flowing water of considerable volume. The word “river” comes from the Old English word “rievere” or “reofor,” which means “to flow.” Rivers are found on every continent in 177 countries .