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maintained through rituals like ceremonial bathing and meditation
as well as traditional techniques like flood recession farming.
Civilization use to worship rivers as there livelihood was dependent
on rivers. Fishing, agriculture, domestic usage is still dependent on
rivers.
Later, people discovered that crops do well in the fertile soil near rivers.
The rich river plains of the Nile in Egypt, the Indus in southern Asia,
the Tigris and Euphrates in the Middle East, and the Huang (Yellow)
in China are where the world’s first great civilizations emerged.
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When communities and industry grew, the rushing water of rivers
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