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Water Scarcity in Libya

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Libya

Water Scarcity

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- sea water heated up

- water condenses

- water vapor cooled

- water drinkable

-95% of the country is dessert

-cultivable area about 2.2 million hectares ╚>1.2% of the total area

-desalination plants produce 30-40 million m³ / year

- want invest $1 billion to increase to 1 million / day

Desalination

Problems

Solutions

-93% of the land gets less than 100 mm rain per year

╚> mountain ranges keep rain from the mainland

- average annual rainfall: 26 mm / km²

- runoff is about 200 million m³ / year

╚> bad soil, dessert

http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/156964/

last accessed: 5.12.2015

http://www.indexmundi.com/libya/#Demographics

last accessed: 6.12.2015

http://www.koshland.science-muesum.org/water/html/en/Sources/Fossil-Water-in-Libya.html

last accessed: 5.12.2015

http://www.water-technology.net/projects/gmr

last accessed: 6.12.2015

Area: 1,759,540 km²

Population: 6,244,000

Density: 3,4 / km²

GDP:

- total: $67.622 billion

- Per capita: $11,046

HDI: 55th 0.784

- pumping water from underground reservoirs since 1984

- 4,000 kilometers pipeline move 6.5 million m³ of water each day

-4,200 million m³ from 1975-2000

-project planned for 50 years

╚> nobody knows how much water is left

Groundwater

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