Impacts of Water Scarcity
- Created by: A.Wilson13
- Created on: 15-03-18 19:47
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- Impacts of water insecurity
- Conflicts
- Due to tensions
- Common in areas where large river basins & inland waters are shared between countries.
- Tensions
- International competition
- Pollution
- If river flow unable to carry away all discharge of waste water, pollution builds up
- Use of hazardous chemicals in manufacturing and agriculture
- Rising costs
- Affects profitability of economic activities
- If must charge more for goods, likely to reduce sales
- Reduced output
- If must charge more for goods, likely to reduce sales
- Affects profitability of economic activities
- Lower productivity
- Livestock quality declines if not enough to drink
- Dependent of water irrigation for commercial agriculture
- Safe water shortages
- Pollution makes some water unfit for human consumption
- Waterborne disease
- Due to human contact with polluted water
- Infectious diseases spread in polluted water e.g. typhoid
- Water parasites
- Over-abstraction
- Conflicts
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