DRAINAGE OF INDIA
THE INDUS
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Melting glaciers
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The sink
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The pacific ocean
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none of above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The mountainous region of the upper Indus receives precipitation largely in the form of snow. A large amount of the Indus’s water is provided by melting snows and glaciers of the Karakoram, Hindu Kush, and Himalayan ranges.
Detailed explanation-2: -Glacier melt constitutes over one-third of the Indus River’s discharge, but the impacts of glacier shrinkage from anthropogenic climate change are not equal across all eleven subbasins of the Upper Indus.
Detailed explanation-3: -Melting glaciers add to rising sea levels, which in turn increases coastal erosion and elevates storm surge as warming air and ocean temperatures create more frequent and intense coastal storms like hurricanes and typhoons.
Detailed explanation-4: -The source of Indus is the bokhar-chu glacier near mansarovar lake situated in great himalayas. Its main tributaries is sutlej, jhelum, chenab, ravi, beas and other minor streams.