The Truth of Water Scarcity in Libya.
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5. The help from organizations
In Africa, many organizations are trying to help people who do not have
enough water
UNICEF is the world’s leading organisation working for children and child rights.
What is water scarcity?
Does climate, rainfall, population and physical features effect water scarcity?
Are there projects to help?
How can we help?
Unicef works on the conflict of water
To focus on the issue of water is one of the
important work for Unicef
In more than 100 countries
-to improve water supplies
-to make clean environments
for children
Result
Until now, Unicef made
-35 wells or water tanks
-122 toilets
in 37 schools in the country
Bibliography
What is Water Scarcity?
www.countrymeters.onfo/en/libya
www.thewaterprofect
www.gapminder.org/
1. Reasons for water scarcity
Water scarcity is the lack of sufficient available water resources to meet the demands of water usage within a region.
what could be done to help those who are being affected...
3.Who are affected?How?
There are three major reasons...
There are 4 major reasons
For a small investment, you can fund long-lasting water projects that serve villages and schools.
Climate
2.Poverty
How do people get water if they do not have clean water?
1.Hunger
- A lot of Women or children walk more than three hours to get water and carry 40-70 pounds of water everyday.
If people do
not have enough water, they cannot grow food.
Both the Mediterranean Sea and the desert affect Libya's climate. In the winter the weather is cool with some rain on the coast.
They are wasting time to get water.
Then, women cannot work
and be poor.
Growing food takes huge amount of water
So, water scarcity begins
with having hunger.
3.Health
4.Education
In Libya, 80% of illness
relates to not clean water because...
How does water scarcity affect to education?
The African Climate makes it hard to get to water sources.
-Some of bacterias and worms in dirty water make diseases in human body.
1. Students miss classes to get and carry water.
2. A lot of children get sick by dirty water. Then they cannot go to the school.
3.Sometimes, teachers are sick and cancel the classes.
1 out of every 5 deaths under the age of 5 is because of the water-related disease.
Population
Poverty
The population of Libya is 6,594,978 to be exact. They live side by side in small houses.
A lot of people in Libya
are poor so they
do not have enough money to buy clean water or to set up water systems.