Key Facts About The The World's Greatest Rivers | Travel Documentary

[@thesharpiefp]

Settled in for a interesting show, and my night is over….5 hours just like that. Thanks tracks great job 😊

[@TRACKSTravelDocs]

Thanks so much for watching! 😊✨

[@richardearnshaw2719]

Rivetting 😂 A lot of rivets went into it 😮😊 I hope u get caught up zzzzzzzxoon ❤

[@albertog40]

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[@chriscarrol9373]

Binge watching it on my phone plugged in. At two hours in and my phone is getting warm. Maybe take a break?

[@sankarbasu8524]

Thanks from INDIA, for creating such a beautiful presentation.

[@cruisepaige]

I drove through 5 states listening to this. Was so interesting!

[@budman74astros]

What a great documentary! Very educational and entertaining. Watched the entire video at once and will do so again. Thank you to everyone that put this presentation together’

[@wendellwiggins3776]

INCREDIBLE DOC! I so fear what the future holds on so many levels. I've been to the Brazil's Amazon & India's Ganges at Varanasi & at the cremation Ghats while trying to recover from an earlier stomach viral infection. It's quite an intensely heavy experience. I also pilgrimaged to one source of the IT in the Himalayas to Bradrinath Temple under the snowy peaks often immersed in passing clouds where the cold water runs fast. Worshippers travel weeks across mountains but it's so worth it. The experience can not be described

[@geemonster9179]

Mankind seriously needs to stop polluting and pillaging and start respecting the land, we could learn a lot from the indigenous peoples of their respective lands.

[@dorianmclean6755]

I'm only 40 minutes in or so to this Toured china in 2001 Been always following what I can about 'it' Breathtaking documentary so far... Glad I looked for history ....of 'rivers. Cant wait to watch the entire thing. Breathtaking ty

[@ericsalima2804]

Am happy you finally spoke about the nile.

[@frankgrace1537]

A 5 hour documentary about rivers? Hmm, that’s some streaming.

[@HoodratHippie]

🥁

[@shawnrickert6764]

i took a d4 of psychic damage

[@lesliechristensen6974]

I like your sense of humour.

[@chriscarrol9373]

Watched the whole thing in one go and got nothing done today. Then again it was a perfect day.

[@elyjane8316]

😂

[@sandrabarney285]

I love these well done documentaries so a big thank you to everyone that makes these possible 😊

[@TheRoughStar]

I feel for the people who are struggling with progress. It is not that others are pacing fast, nor is it that they lack ambition. There are many who just wanna plant foot and live modestly in peace. Unfortunately, wanting for more is set as the modern norm for humanity.

[@GuantanamoBayBarbie3]

I had no idea that the Amazon River is un-dammed and un-bridged in its entirety, or that it had more kinds of fish than the entire Atlantic Ocean! That's incredible!! The longer I live, the more I believe that God never intended for us to live in cities. Villages perhaps, but not cities.

[@PARABOLA1966]

God doesn't have, anything to do, with what we do here, on this planet. The more people you cram on a planet the size of earth, the more complex their existence become, especially with limited resources available.

[@kunabdussalaam2417]

Wow perfectly said your a Genius

[@goforit194]

Cities are concrete jungles , full of sounds , pollutions and traffic .. this is not a good time to be born as a human , I prefer to be a blue jays, geese 🪿 or barn swallow or a flamingo 🦩, a migratory species , no air ticket , no passport no taxes and you eat a little and pollute minimum Spread seeds in bird poop ..

[@andreewert1925]

God wanted us to own Condominiums and live in Community...lol

[@HotdogwaterHotchocolate-qj7kh]

God wants melted cheese and bacon on everything I eat

[@williamhiles7404]

My mother was two years old when the flood of '27 hit New Orleans. I still listen to When The Levee Breaks by Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy. That story of Honeyboy was cool. Thanx. New Orleans, also the home of the great Fats Domino. He's gone now, but Blueberry Hill will live on forever. And let's not forget the Neville Bros. LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹

[@GideonMollel]

I love these well done documentaries so a big thank you to everyone that makes these possible

[@danechristmas6570]

5 hrs!..My goodness..I'd have to take it in parts.. Just finished watching the first on the Yangzte., excellent production and a well-balanced commentary

[@karenwilkerson9257]

That Dam is no longer there.

[@kennethbartels1871]

seen this years ago..would like to see an update to see whats happening now.

[@elsiemarina2572]

Nature finds a way!

[@ElspethMclachlan-do5fi]

Repeat this with me “ I don’t chase i I attract, what belongs to me will simply find me". Wishing you the best from Shanthi healing music

[@kaiyokana8843]

Very educational where we can learn more from china esp of natural disasters effect by human acts

[@GideonMollel]

Settled in for a interesting show, and my night is over

[@leito1257]

Thank you so much for this amazing 🤩 documentary. I don’t know when I will finish to see it but certainly I am enjoying to see it so far.🥰 Feel very sad when so drastic repercussions change the original landscape that belongs to the river beds and to the way of people living and surviving.😢

[@worldcitizeng6507]

Free 5 hours quality documentary 👏👏👏

[@georgemutua7417]

Excellent documentary. Very informative.

[@kp6215]

Makong also greatly polluted because the mills on river to run the wheel that moves another piece of mechanical. engineering.

[@indigenousnorwegianeuropa4145]

The internet as we used to know it. I like

[@JohnBosco.1308]

This a very long documentary but it is worth it for students of Geography and History to some extent. Thank you

[@cruisepaige]

“Worth it?” SMH

[@syedazizkadri883]

Excellent!!!

[@TRACKSTravelDocs]

thanks for watching! ✨

[@danielmonacillo3740]

Nice documentary,on how the people destroy the ecosystem of the river

[@rudolphtheodore3474]

Please, can you show the building of the Great Wall of China? Will of like to see it's construction also.

[@jessicajae7777]

1. Yangtze river in China 2. Amazon river in S. America 3. Ganges river in India 4. Mississippi river in N. America 5. Rhine river in Germany 6. Nile river Africa

[@JohnBosco.1308]

Oh, the deepest river is still the Congo River. Also not dammed because of the fast-moving rapids and rocks before Kisingbani

[@mohammadyasin8531]

Brammaputra river is more powerful and longer than the ganges in India.

[@seanconnery1277]

1.4.2022.Very good and best.Thanks for sharing.

[@amazonfire4699]

I love these rivers documentary

[@ramthianthomson601]

Thanks again

[@kp6215]

DAH this was obvious from the moment I was taught geography that affects EVERYTHING

[@sari_sari9915]

watching this documentary for 5 days 1 hour a day🙇‍♂🤣

[@d.c.8828]

5 hours? Nice!

[@chihiro5156]

Omg. FIVE HOURS documentary🤣 okay then. Well done, Tracks...❤😆

[@dianadobos1]

Nice!

[@BaccaratDegen]

China is so fascinating, I hope to go one day. The people of China are exceptional and seem to be good natured people. I don’t agree with the CCP and how they control the people but the energy throughout the country is very vibrant

[@aparghimire2885]

Thanks

[@Ezekiel903]

the Yangtze is heavy polluted today, even the surrounding land, and the problem with the sediment, a catastrophic situation!!

[@mauricecalliss1303]

An anunaki alien washed his hair in the Ganga now it's holy. I wud never have guessed

[@user-vc3yy2vg8h]

استغفرالله العضيم عالم يعبدو الحيوانات 😢 هذا يدل على الموحدين بتقصير الدعوه لله. وثاقه يحزني.. الله يهديهم ا😢😢😢😢

[@bealynn2258]

2:32:15 It's now 3.20.2022 What has Changed in India in regards to this River and the water resources??

[@jessicajae7777]

Nothing it's worse

[@tealkerberus748]

Actively dredging the silt out of the dam and pumping it into the outflow so it can continue its journey downstream would be an opportunity to remove litter and test for pollutants. I was taught that when you halve the velocity of running water, you cut to 1/8 the amount of sediment that it can carry. Incidentally, the dam filling up with sediment won't cause the water levels to rise upstream of the dam. The water level is controlled by the dam height. But what will eventually happen is that the dam will be filled with silt instead of water, which means it won't be much use for flood mitigation any more.

[@BavonWW]

Deforestation the cause, reforestation the cure. Charcoal for Mecca/barbe is a significant factor; as well as urbanisation and open mining.

[@Nepidemicofmannequins]

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[@davechristian7543]

were ever u r the Government can do wat they want to you sadly................. Just wait until the day it happens to You my-friend, YES YOU WHO IS READING THIS RIGHT-NOW.!!!

[@Oppo-uh1xi]

Not only those who read this but everyone's turn will come

[@kannanthrivikraman1139]

Close down leather product industries

[@deaghlanfinn-kelly9296]

I have to say regarding the Amazon River and the destruction of the forests I did not realise just how large of an area it was being killed every day. O can not even comprehend those amounts. I did know it was going on, but the vastness of this is too huge to understand. I have to ask is my putting plastics and glass in various bins doing anything when these criminals can for just greed do this to the planet's lungs? Those doing this should be named and shamed, the ships left unloaded at our ports and turned back, The people there are too vulnerable to take on killers, but here in the west we can take action. The three gorges dam, but we did this when we build dams and motorways, people are moved, we have no say, Then the flooding of valleys, this was done in Whales what do you think they flooded? Villages, graves, everything was gone. I had hoped to see the Russian rivers as well.

[@arenashawn772]

I am not surprised by the critical tones used to describe the Yangzi River Dam project, And I don’t deny there would be lots of environmental problems as any of these grand scale projects would, be it A giant dam, a huge group of wind turbines or A large area of the desert turned into solar farm. Short of mass, decreasing of population, at the number of human beings currently, in the world, there is just nothing we could do that would not cause huge impact and potential harm for the environment around us. But that’s not what I’m trying to say here. I just want to point out. The people who are removed from the towns that are being flooded were given generous relocation fees, and dwellings much more spacious and comfortable than where they used to live in the countryside. I know this from first person experiences as some of my cousins were among these people. Of course not everybody wants to leave and it is painful to lose the family homes that perhaps many generations have grown up in. But public policy often is choosing between two harmful solutions, because there is no solutions without any cost or pain points. In comparison, many modernization movements in the US Such as a highway in the middle of a city did not give proper compensation or relocation to the people that were forcefully moved. Many of those people and their descendants are still suffering from the consequences of those moves and waiting for compensation. I live in the city of San Francisco and have talked to many old resident of this city that have lived through such painful history. It is easy to point out what others are not doing Adequately without looking at one’s own mistakes in similar situations. But such attitude in making documentaries in my opinion is irresponsible and misleading.

[@faustinae3927]

Man destroys everything he touches

[@NANAB1950]

Interesting

[@AEON.]

Egypt has a under sand sea of water - underground rivers - and more.

[@jessicajae7777]

Not only Egypt even Antarctica does

[@cruisepaige]

Oh dear

[@michaeldowney6361]

39:10 why can there not be room for pride and progress? If others have recognized problems with the environment along the dam I can't the Chinese government begin doing something about it? Would that not add to the appreciable pride of the dam while at the same time adding to that pride as improvements are made?

[@hectorheslop9397]

Are the "powers that be" not aware of the plight of the River Ganges and the impact on some of it's people ? .

[@tartvtheafricanrepublic7825]

Majestic Scenic River. It's A Shame.

[@pedrotampos2877]

yessss

[@lloydsavage1520]

To stop all that excess water they should build big steel water storage tanks to suck up and hold the water that start filling holding the water once the water reaches a certain height. Later if needed they can release it as needed out into their rice fields.

[@lloydsavage1520]

Once it is in a container it cannot flood jack!!

[@tealkerberus748]

2:26:50 E coli does not cause typhoid and hepatitis. They are each caused and transmitted by their own pathogens. E coli is just an easily detectable marker for human sewerage, which may also carry these other pathogens. It can make you sick in its own right, but E coli alone won't give you typhoid!

[@kevincaldwell4707]

For all these "developing" countries, the easiest way to modernize is to use their natural resources to the fullest. Obviously this can lead to issues with their rivers, land, and people. The rest of us can't say much as "first world" countries have done the same for centuries to get where they are today. It's just that by these "developing" countries doing it now we are aware of what issues this can cause for the environment.

[@quetzalcoatlz]

@kevincaldwell4707 so nice to see a thoughtful and educated comment instead of making fun of other cultures and nationalities. Before the creation of the EPA and various other agencies and government regulations US companies trashed this beautiful country. Here in Cleveland there is a local beer named "burning river," named after the Cuyahoga river famously caught on fire. This event helped lead to the creation of the EPA. Some of these other countries are just now reaching industry levels the US reached throughout the early 1900s, and like you said nowadays info spreads much quicker than it used to in the past. Another comment buried above me brought up that the Mississippi still encounters heavy pollution from the meat industry.

[@James-miller]

3:11:20 so I can find peace and transquility 😂

[@lucianabrito7163]

An Ethiopian engineer should be able to create solar powered pump to extract water from the Nile with hoses penetrating the agricultural land. This will solved their independence from food aid

[@woutervandenbosch8161]

If he can get the money for it....

[@ayansabir9014]

How old this episode is ?

[@robertcronin6603]

*is this episode

[@tylercooper1551]

Sorry mate, was that a question?

[@jessicajae7777]

2015

[@drpepperr]

Yeah. The Three Gorges project was under construction 20 years ago.

[@almightyyt2101]

Great documentary - each segment was at least a 4 out of 5! Sad to be reminded of our past but the point should be that humans did bad things to each other and no one is blameless bc we are all guilty of something, if u think yr family is squeaky clean go back a few generations and learn - white vs black rich vs poor vs add a descriptor here. Its all divisive until I realized were all human and theres a few bad behaviors that are endemic to our species which doesnt excuse them but gives an example to learn from. Above all else, be nice to one another. Proper Education Always Corrects Errors!

[@RafiqulIslam-ci8fq]

How could you describe Ganges without mentioning The Padma in Bangladesh ?

[@user-tm8yy7gn9i]

hi 👋မဂ်လာပါ❤

[@woutervandenbosch8161]

4:48:18 If it is his land, why not dig a ditch? Or a small watering canal? He's got the tools for it. 😮

[@lanloca7687]

Great doc. But Why there are no Mekong River in this one. ☹️

[@jessicajae7777]

There is one just not here and probably because it's not as disastrous as these are. But there is a really good one I just seen this past week.

[@faustinae3927]

I watched a documentary on another part of China and no running water or electricity 😉🫤

[@GuantanamoBayBarbie3]

@2:40:10 the narrator kept calling that city Keiru, pronounced kay-roo. I deduced that he might mean CAIRO, pronounced Ky-ro, since that area has a lot of Egyptian names - like Memphis. Sure enough, for all you Americans, he was talking about Cairo. Right up river from Memphis, just like he said. I don't know what country he was from, but what I read online said we (brits & yanks) pronounce it the same. So maybe that wasn't a British accent after all.

[@quetzalcoatlz]

I've never in my life heard anyone pronounce it kay-roo I couldn't stop laughing at the narrator pronouncing it. Its spelled exactly like it is spelled in Egypt here in the states. We have quite a few cities named Cairo for some reason

[@tealkerberus748]

Three rivers for Eurasia, one each for America north and south, and the Nile. You missed the rest of Africa, and you missed Australia entirely. If you can't include the Congo and the Murray-Darling, you're not even trying.

[@FlorinMC]

Why Rhine instead Danube?

[@SelSun83]

Liked this... except for all propa. So they know how to move 80 plus ton stones with?

[@timothykamau6005]

What of the recent tsunami in Indonesia?

[@hildaelmore-cn9pc]

If they love it why kill it.😢

[@chriscarrol9373]

So a caiman walks in to a restaurant and asks the owner what's on the menu? She says chicken fajitas and handbags.

[@tealkerberus748]

4:38:20 "five billion cubic litres" you what now?

[@leito1257]

Over a thousand people have died in the building of this megastructure ..😢 That means people was working over them edge strength and with out any safety.😢😡

[@morho9422]

cos they are crazy. like those who built the early skyscrapers in new york.

[@roberthoover2456]

25:00

[@bernardwanjohi7201]

The Mississipi story though,sad sad

[@kolapyellow7631]

Ganges is so dirty !

[@faustinae3927]

No land😡they took the people property,for their greed🤮🐁

[@rawlsrules]

When was this produced?

[@atilamatamoros7499]

Another irrefutable example of double edge capitalism. “Progress” in anthropocentric focus, destruction of biocentric development, water, air, soil without no one can survive.

[@mikekincaid7412]

Not a lotta response here boy.. you ever wondered why most of the richest people in the world are Russian or China’s leaders?? People in charge of your savings??

[@Sabotage_Labs]

Whoa.... We've cleaned up our act here in America and west in general. And it's capitalism that led the charge. China...is NOT capitalism. It's very much communism with capitalist "like" policies in a very narrow margin. For example, 95% of the plastic in the oceans doesn't come from the west. It comes from 8 rivers in China and 2 in Africa. America businesses learned their lesson when it came to pollution and it's effects on the bottom line. Where you still find the rare problems...are caused by corruption and always democrat govt control. Flint Michigan water...for example. American water ways are the cleanest they've ever been since the industrial revolution. The country is greener then when the constitution was ratified. I'm old enough to remember when the Cuyahoga River was in fire! Don't blame capitalism! Capitalism has saved more lives and imported the living standards of more poeple than any other system in the history of mankind!

[@bestvibes1848]

Somebody asked me once , “why you Africans don’t develop your nations ? I told him , just watch Europe in the next 20 years that’s why

[@Sabotage_Labs]

When does Africa assume responsibility for Africa and take agency? Colonialism ended decades ago. The only outside influence now is from China. When does Europe stop getting blamed for something its had no control over for generations?

[@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts]

Why aren't the CCP offer allotments to the farmers being forced off their lands by the dam and into high rise flats?? What a tortuous life for a farmer to be forced into 😕 allotments would ease that pain and keep people feeling productive.

[@shane5983]

News flash🎉 Moscato's can't breed in any moving water 😊

[@woutervandenbosch8161]

Moscato's can't breed at all. Mosquitoes on the other hand... 😉😉

[@Hcs-gt5mt]

Why so many negative comments on china? Look at the progress China has made since 1949, and the development since three gorges dam was built

[@woutervandenbosch8161]

Look at what they have distroyed by building these and how mutch coal they still use? But I agree, mostly what they tell in the west is that we should be afraid of China. Well I for one will make up my own mind about that.

[@timothykamau6005]

How will China react to a nature's negative feed back?

[@woutervandenbosch8161]

Who cares it's totaly filled with falshoods and wrong facts. Basicly a fake news movie. 😂

[@stevenwoodbury]

Money money money. So sad. Wouldn’t many damns done the same thing without losing history?

[@user-lf2jh2ru9f]

You replaced the Danube with the Rhine, completely irrelevant to European history. Vinca culture (or Danube culture, as some like to call it) is the root of European culture, but it's a wonder how historians avoid it, especially the British one.

[@jaimedavis439]

as blessed as memphis is to have an institution like stax and a heart such as hers to guide it. i must disagree with her rejection of rap as music. there is no denying the tendency of todays rappers to focus only on the drugs, the money and the girls, sex drugs and rock n roll, if you will. but not only is that not all rap, she cited hip hop..! had she known her hip hop shed know that hip hop was nothing with out its message! a message served up with artistry and yes, rhythm. rap is expression, expression is art. often, in the beginning, rappers use whatever is at hand to fuel this expression. just as EVERY true artist before them. dont dismiss someones art, someones expression, just because their tools are different than yours, dont do that. i honestly dont believe she means to be like that. she cant, or she wouldnt be doing what she is. what she is doing is trying to provide different tools, which is great. any tool they choose, save a gun or a tooter, hey, they doin something.

[@TheTwoCommaKid]

Lolll

[@tartvtheafricanrepublic7825]

When The Dam Fails Then What? As An Engineer I Can Guarantee It Will Fail In Our Lifetime.

[@bmolitor615]

Wah waaah wah, so we had it good for a few decades and built up all this fancy infra-structure [and expectations], but life is change, change is [sometimes uuuh, "profoundly"] uncomfortable, and we're just gonna have to embrace that discomfort. And honestly, I used to care if humans caused some of it or all of it, but I don't anymore. It's on us, and all we can do is adapt. Cuz ya know what? humans aren't interested in giving up even. single. little. thing they have in their actual grasp for the future or whatever, so the way it'll happen is that our comforts and expectations will be eventually be torn away from us and then we'll all run around crying and walloping each other and slowly adapt. It's not going to be fun.

[@kuncle71]

Acedently said cuting down trees Not fossil fuels

[@woutervandenbosch8161]

(3:08:50 give or take) Families in extreme poverty they say and it is (no doubt) hard to live there but then show extreme poverty, not 3 young lads riding bling bling bikes. That's not extreme poverty!!

[@Voidy123]

Ethiopia is also one of the poorest countries and have never been colonized, why should Egypt give away its water? ...lets see Ethiopia fight over water, it will be a very short battle.

[@mauricecalliss1303]

WE'RE IN HELL. HE'LL HELL

[@devioux4082]

@ 7:55 That statement didn't age well at all......

[@kerrymarris4260]

Married the girl doing the dolphin, eat the caymon trying to eat me ...