[South China Morning Post]Opinion | Urgent action needed to save Hindu Kush Himalaya, world’s ‘water tower’
The Hindu Kush Himalaya, known as the world’s “water tower”, is a single ecological unit, divided by political boundaries but unified by natural assets such as mountains, rivers and biodiversity. Importantly, it is the source of 10 large Asian river systems – the Amu Darya, Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, ...