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Climate change: Melting glaciers bring energy uncertainty
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Countries should work together to understand how the Himalayan thaw will affect hydroelectric energy, says Javaid R. Laghari.
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15 November 2013
This article originally stated that Himalayan glaciers lost 174 gigatonnes of water each year for the period 2003–09. This was not the annual rate, but the total amount for that period. In addition, it should have said that the Indus depends on glacial waters for up to half of its flow, not half of its flow, as originally stated. The text has now been corrected.
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