Title: Rivers and lakes: Can we save them?

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Q: We rely on fresh water for drinking, food, and [...], and they’re in trouble. But freshwater issues are becoming a higher [...] for conservationists.
Around the world, rivers, lakes, and [...] have increasingly come under assault from poorly planned dams, pollution, [...] loss, sand mining, [...] change, and the introduction of [...] species.
The result is that freshwater [...] have become the most degraded in the world, with fish [...] pushed to the brink. There are more kinds of [...] fish than there are fish species living in the oceans and seas. Freshwater vertebrate populations have declined by 86 percent since 1970—twice the rate experienced within terrestrial or [...] ecosystems—and almost a third of freshwater fish species are now threatened with [...].
Yet it’s a crisis that has received far less attention than other environmental emergencies—like [...] or plastic pollution—despite human reliance on freshwater systems for drinking water, food, and sanitation.
But now there are signs of change, with freshwater issues becoming more prominently featured on the [...] agenda. The ecological and economic [...] of maintaining healthy rivers are increasingly clear, scientists say, as are the solutions for how to do it. They warn, however, that things need to move fast if we are going to save ecosystems crucial to the [...] of both animals and humans.

Adapted from: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/rivers-and-lakes-are-most-degraded-ecosystems-in-world-can-we-save-them
A: sanitation; priority; wetlands; habitat; climate; invasive; ecosystems; populations; freshwater; marine; extinction; deforestation; conservation; benefits; survival