Should Rivers Have Rights? A Growing Movement Says It’s About Time

August 14, 2018
By Jens Benöhr and Patrick J. Lynch
Yale Environment 360

Chile is a land of rivers. Along its narrow 3,000-mile length, thousands of rivers and wetlands bring freshwater and nutrients down from the Andes Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. Together, these river systems drain 101 major watersheds that support both terrestrial and marine ecosystems, ranging from arid lands in the north to blue whale nurseries off of Patagonia in the south.