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Drying up rivers - Kur

Kur river is the longest river in South Caucasus region. Summer sunset in Kura river, Salyan 2018 capture:Incha Aliyeva Most populous areas are located close to the freshwater sources. However due to high speed urbanization, growing number of people, unsustainable water usage freshwater resources significantly depleted.  Water crisis started to be a case in some densely populated areas. According to 2015 projection for Global Water strees Azerbaijan is one of the countries which probability of water crisis is high. Mismanagement of water resources is started to show water scarcity within the country. One of them is Kura river water level drop. Kura river is the major water vein. Kura river, Salyan, August 2020 However the river has pollution problems and what makes problem's management more restrictive is river being transboundary. But what we are going to focus is drying up of the river. The case study will be lowlands of the river which is in Azerbaijan. If this region wa...