Case Study 17: Development issues and water
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- Case Study 17: Development issues and water
- Key Terms:
- Irrigation: adding water to crops
- Multi-purpose scheme: projects such as dams that have more than one aim eg. to provide water, electricity and a place for leisure
- Aquifer: a rock with pores that holds water
- Appropriate technology: using materials and resources suited to a location eg. water schemes that are cheap and easy to maintain in a LEDC
- Water demand: the amount of water needed by people in the area
- Water supply: the amount of water available for use in the area
- Reservoir: a lake created to store water behind a dam
- River Nile is a trans boundary river because it flows through 11 countries
- Egypt relies heavily on the river yet is downstream so the growing population of Ethiopia upstream reduces the water they recieve
- Only 59% of water reaches Egypt from the Blue Nile
- Egypt relies heavily on the river yet is downstream so the growing population of Ethiopia upstream reduces the water they recieve
- The reservoir behind the Aswan Dam, Lake Nasser which rosses the border between Egypt and Sudan
- Advantages
- Using the dam to generate electricity
- Controls flooding
- Provides irrigation
- Disadvantages
- High evaporation rates
- Controls flooding
- Silt builds up in the reservoir
- Advantages
- The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) is a partnership among the Nile states that "seeks to develop the river in a cooperative manner" yet this is difficult as every country has its own growing needs and difficult climates
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