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		Campaign for a Sustainable Planet Campaign Home Pledge your Support Learn About the Campaign Our Conservation Success Mark Tercek on the Campaign Lakes & Rivers Oceans & Coasts Forests Grasslands Deserts & Aridlands Global Strategies Conservation Capacity Climate Change

Go Deeper See gorgeous photos of the plants and animals of the Lower Mississippi River, a focus area of the Campaign. Get Involved There are many ways you can support our Campaign for a Sustainable Planet. You can make a gift today with our safe and secure donation form or explore how you can create a legacy for the natural world while meeting your philanthropic and financial goals.

Human activities have placed enormous stress on freshwater resources — disrupting fish spawning, migration and life cycles; hampering the regeneration of streamside forests; and damaging other important ecological processes.

Within the next 50 years, more than one-half of the world's population will face water shortages unless something is done now to conserve this dwindling resource.

Make a gift to our Campaign for a Sustainable Planet with our safe and secure donation form.

Campaign Projects: Lakes and Rivers

The Conservancy has identified 10 priority lakes and rivers projects around the world:

• Zambezi River
• Mississippi River
• Colorado River
• Southern Rivers
• Murray-Darling Basin
• The Great Lakes
• Pacific Salmon Ecosystems
• Yangtze River
• Paraguay-Parana River System
• Rivers of the Andes

Lakes and Rivers Case Statement Find out more about all of the Conservancy's priority lakes and rivers projects. Download our case statement.

Map of Our Priority Lakes and Rivers Projects See a map of our priority lakes and rivers projects around the world.

Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photos © Chris Helzer/TNC (Sandhill cranes flying along the Platte River, Nebraska); © Brian Richter/TNC (Zambezi River); © Scott Warren (Case Statement)