Most people in the world get our water from rivers and lakes, including the vast majority of the world’s poorest people.
But half of the world’s 500 most important rivers – water sources for hundreds of millions of people – are being seriously depleted or polluted.* Approximately 40 percent of the rivers in the U.S. are too polluted for fishing and swimming.**
Water shortages will likely be a fact of life for most people on the planet within the next ten years.*** We can’t afford to pollute and destroy our drinking water sources. But that’s exactly what we’re doing – often without knowing it.
Forests, grasslands and wetlands are nature’s water filters. They help keep erosion and pollution from flowing into our waters and they slow rainwater down, sending more water into underground supplies. But every year we lose 32 million acres of forest – that's a lot of water filters, gone, every year.
We are facing dirtier, unsafe water and more risk of water shortages and scarcity. This crisis is real, it’s happening now and it’s getting worse fast.
The Nature Conservancy partners with people communities in all 50 states and 30 countries to protect water sources. We work on the ground to:
<span><span>Prevent deforestation and destruction of grasslands – nature’s water filters</span><span>Restore forests and grasslands that have already been lost or damaged and sending erosion into our waters</span><span>Equip farmers with practical ways to keep harmful run-off out of our waters</span><span>Restore floodplains that act as sponges and send water down into groundwater supplies and filter pollution out of rivers</span><span>Create new science that helps pinpoint the greatest threats to our waters and the most effective ways to combat them</span></span>
But we understand that nature won’t solve everything, so we’re finding new ways to reduce water use. More than 70 percent of water withdrawn from nature goes to agriculture, so we’re helping farmers access new technologies and practices that use less water while continuing to produce the food we need.
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1. (pl. gametangia) an organ of lower plants, some protists and some fungi, that produces gametes- gametangium.
2. the reproductive cell in sexual reproduction- for example, the egg or sperm.
3. gamete-producing organ in animals - gonad.
4. cone-bearing plant - gymnosperm.
5. the condition of having isogametes - isogamy.
Gametangium refers to the specialized organ of algae, fungi, ferns and other plants involved in the production of gametes. A female gametangia is called the archegonia producing the egg cells and the male gametangia is called the antheridia producing the sperm cells.
Sexual reproduction is characterized by the production and fusion of the male and female gametes called the sperm and the egg respectively.
The gamete producing organ in animals is called the gonads. It is the testis in the male and the ovary in the female.
Gymnosperms are naked seeded plants. The scales or leaves modified to form the male and the female cones.
Isogamy is a type of sexual reproduction that involves the gametes of similar morphology with similar size.
Answer:During pregnancy, red blood cells from the unborn baby can cross into the mother's blood through the placenta. If the mother is Rh-negative, her immune system treats Rh-positive fetal cells as if they were a foreign substance. The mother's body makes antibodies against the fetal blood cells
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