People living along the dried-up rivers have had to carry drinking water on their shoulders Water levels in many of the rivers in the Amazon basin have ... The Madeira river, a major tributary ...

The Amazon river is the largest drainage system in the world in terms of water volume and its drainage basin. The 6,400 kilometer (4,000 mile) river flows from the Andes Mountains of Peru ...

For several years, the Amazon River Basin (ARB) has been in a state of exceptional drought, driven by low rainfall and consistently high temperatures. The river basin contains the world's largest ...