... has a massive drainage basin of over half a million square kilometres. The sheer scale of the drainage basin is important in that within this area many different environments are enveloped: over such a large area, there are many varied types of land and climate variations, each with it's own problems including flooding, and so the river must deal with all of these as they are included within ... many months with little rain but then will experience periods of sudden heavy rainfall. The river is forcedto deal with these sudden increases in the volume of water entering the river, and at t...

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