Hot Deserts Case Study - The Sahara
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- Created on: 09-04-18 16:18
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- Hot Deserts Case Study "The Sahara"
- Facts
- Earth's Largest Desert
- Population : 2,000,000
- Located in North Africa
- Stretches over many countries
- Mali
- Morocco
- Tunisia
- Algeria
- Egypt
- Libya
- Economic Development Opportunities
- Mineral Resources
- Morocco is the world's largest exporter of phosphate
- Oil and Gas
- Algeria is a leader in oil exploration and extraction in the Sahara
- 60% of Algeria income is from oil and gas industry
- Has Many oil fields including "Hassi Messaoud"
- Employs over 40,000 people
- Algeria is a leader in oil exploration and extraction in the Sahara
- Solar Energy
- Tunisia is planned to supply enough electricity to meet the needs of 2,000,000 homes in Western Europe by 2018
- Tourism
- Many Popular Tourist Activities
- Sandboarding
- Carting
- Cross-Desert Treks
- Camel Trekking (Morocco)
- Many people visit cities in the outskirts
- Example: Marrakech
- Many Popular Tourist Activities
- Farming
- Commercial Farming is only possible where there is enough irrigation water
- Example: Aswan-Dam provides year round water for Egypt
- Commercial Farming is only possible where there is enough irrigation water
- Mineral Resources
- Challenges of Development
- Extreme Temperatures
- High temperatures can cause illness or death
- Healthcare might be far away
- Hot season is too hot for Tourists
- Employment in the tourism industry can be Seasonal
- High temperatures can cause illness or death
- Inaccessibility
- People and materials have to travel long distance
- Often by air - EXPENSIVE
- Difficult to provide services such as healthcare for remote regions
- Expensive pipelines have to built
- To transport oil and has from remote areas
- Takes 5 days by truck to transport salt from salt mines in Mali out the desert
- People and materials have to travel long distance
- Water Supply
- Sahara has very low annual rainfall
- Rivers only flow during part of the year
- Providing water for workers, industry or irrigation is extremely hard
- Deep boreholes used to extract water stored naturally under the Sahara
- Not sustainable due to the supply is not replenished
- Desert resources are very valuable that new developments find ways of supplying the water they need
- Sahara has very low annual rainfall
- Extreme Temperatures
- Facts
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