Trivia Question

What country has lost MORE than half of its rivers in the last three decades?

Give us a clue

It still has a lot of Rivers.

Google will actually find the answer, but what's the fun in that!

Is it difficult to spell - the country that is

On the contrary, one of the easiest!

Ah, well. Not much interest in this one then!

CHINA has (estimate) over Twenty-Three Thousand Rivers.

It DID have over Fifty Thousand!

Needless to say severe water shortages afflict huge areas of the country!

It must be all that tea

Is it China?

when did wearing seatbelts become compulsory in Britain.

I had to Google. And it is MUCH later than what I would have guessed.

(Possibly conflating the other related event in my memory)