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Top of page. SS7G2a. Explain how water pollution and the unequal distribution of water impacts irrigation, trade, industry, and drinking water. Water in Africa. Top of Page 67 on lines. Write the question and answer

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  1. Top of page • SS7G2a. • Explain how water pollution and the unequal distribution of water impacts irrigation, trade, industry, and drinking water

  2. Water in Africa

  3. Top of Page 67 on lines • Write the question and answer • If you could not get water from a faucet at home, where would you travel to get water from? Would it be clean?

  4. Water: Page 68 • Very important resource • Can’t live without water • Some regions have an overabundance of water • Central Africa; Rainforest • Some regions have very little water • Deserts and Sahel; North Africa

  5. Lack of Safe Drinking Water • In Sub-Saharan Africa less than 50% of people have safe drinking water • Lack of Basic Sanitation • Feces Disposal Problem • Carried into rivers where people and livestock drink, bathe, etc • Diseases • Cholera occurs in places with poor sanitation, crowding, war, and famine.

  6. Fact • 1 child dies every 15 seconds from illnesses from dirty water = crashing 20 jumbo jets everyday • 240 an hour • 5760 a day

  7. Questions: Bottom of Page 67 • How does the lack of water impact industry and development? • Need water for people • Need water to run factories and industries • How does the lack of water impact agriculture? • Plants can’t grow without water. • How does irrigation (the watering of dry land) help agriculture? • Plants can be grown further out from a water source. Therefore, you increase arable land.

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