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In this chapter, rich water resources of Georgia are presented. Main rivers, lakes, and reservoirs with their geographical properties are described on the basis of various literary sources. The main wealth of Georgia is rivers. There are mainly small (99.9%) and very small rivers. There are almost all types of rivers: plain, mountain, glacier, karst, wetland, drying, etc. There are about 856 small lakes in Georgia. The area of more than half of them is less than 0.1 km2. In the reservoirs of Georgia, a significant part of its water resources are accumulated; 44 water reservoirs are currently in operation with the volume of over 0.5 million m3.
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Geladze, V., Bolashvili, N., Karalashvili, T., Machavariani, N. (2022). Inland Waters. In: Bolashvili, N., Neidze, V. (eds) The Physical Geography of Georgia. Geography of the Physical Environment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90753-2_10
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