[THE BEST OF THE RIVERS] – THE HOTTEST RIVERS IN THE WORLD

According to Telegraph, Boiling River is located deep in the Amazon rainforest in Mayantuyavu of Peru (South America), is the hottest river in the world. People call the river “Shanay-timpishka”, meaning “boiling with the heat of the Sun”. Boiling River is about 25 m wide and 6 m deep but only lasts about 6.4 km. […]

[THE BEST OF RIVERS] – THE LONGEST RIVER LINE IN THE WORLD 

The Nile River (Africa) is always claimed to be the longest river in the world with 6,695 km (documented as 6,650 or 6,853 km). In 2007, a team of Brazilian and Peruvian scientists announced that the Amazon River (South America) is more than 100 km longer than the Nile, according to National Geographic. This makes […]

Decomposition time of plastics

According to statistics from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, in Vietnam, about 1.8 million tons of plastic waste is discharged into the environment each year. However, only 27% of it is recycled and utilized by facilities and businesses. The rest is buried, buried in the ground or discharged into the sea. Therefore, paying […]

[THE BEST OF RIVERS] – THE WORLD’S COOLEST RIVER

The coldest river in the world is not located in the North Pole or the South Pole, but in Europe. It is the Neretva River (also known as Narenta), which flows through Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia with a length of about 230 km.   According to World Atlas, Neretva originates in the mountains of the Dinaric […]

Current status of waste pollution and water pollution in Vietnam

According to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, each year, the total amount of domestic solid waste in our country is 25 million tons. Hanoi generates 6,000 tons of garbage every day, the landfill rate is 90%, while in Ho Chi Minh City it is approximately 70%. In which, the amount of plastic waste […]

Circular economy and Linear economy

The Industrial Revolution created a linear model for producing products quickly and efficiently, regardless of the environmental consequences. In the past, manufacturers used unsustainable resources, produced goods, and disposed of waste in ways that were harmful to the environment.  The linear economy is based on a linear process or follows a straight line (material resources […]

ALL CREATURES NEED WATER TO SURVIVE

The first signs of life appeared in the ocean 3.5 billion years ago, and over the years those early single-celled organisms evolved into the diverse life we see today, on land as well as in the sea. Most of the major branches of the Tree of Life (diagrams showing evolution and relationships between species) are […]

WHAT IS CLEAN WATER?

The water quality standards for countries around the world are built based on different purposes of water use, such as drinking water, domestic water, water for aquatic species (fishes, clams, shells,…), water for sports and recreation, water for agriculture, industry, along with many other purposes. These standards are mainly based on physiochemical and biochemical indicators […]

WATER AND CIVILIZATIONS

Water is the foundation of life. Therefore, it is not surprising that most of the ancient civilizations in the world originated in the basins of large rivers, such as the Egyptian Civilization, Mesopotamian Civilization, Yellow River Civilization, and Indian Civilization.  Egyptian Civilization  Ancient Egypt was a civilization located in Northeast Africa, gathered along the lower […]

INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE RELATED TO WATER RESOURCES

?Have you ever thought that water could also be the cause of war? ?Increasing population, frequent droughts, and floods with accumulative severe destruction… make the need to find and use water resources more and more intense so that it might become the cause of a new war – the war for water. ?According to forecasts, […]