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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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The world's rivers faced the driest year in three decades in 2023, the UN weather agency says

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The U.N. weather agency is reporting that 2023 was the driest year in more than three decades for the world's rivers, as the record-hot year underpinned a drying up of water flows and contributed to prolonged droughts in some places.

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