Water examples
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- Water Cycle and Insecurity Examples
- Water Budgets
- Tropical (Brazil, Indonesia)
- high runoff
- high precipitation & slightly lower evaporation
- Temperate (Chile)
- negative water balance
- higher evaporation & slightly lower precipitation
- Polar (Iceland, Arctic)
- low evaporation & precipitation
- Tropical (Brazil, Indonesia)
- River regimes
- Amazon
- continuous rainy climate
- annual flooding
- wetter & drier season
- Indus
- high snowmelt
- short, heavy precipitation
- Yukon
- snowmelt in spring & summer
- frozen in winter
- large seasonal variability
- Amazon
- Drought
- Sahel
- desertification
- overgrazing
- deforestation
- global warming/el nino
- starvation
- crops destroyed
- Australia
- el nino
- dry year 2006/low rainfall
- sheep & crops died
- food prices rose
- water quality declined
- biodiversity loss
- Sahel
- Uk Flood Events
- 2012
- disrupted jet stream
- thunderstorms
- flash floods
- 8000 homes & businesses flooded
- £600 mill crops affected
- 2007
- many counties across the UK
- low pressure & wet past few months
- soil already saturated
- rivers meeting
- power cuts
- houses and businesses lost
- crop damage
- loss of water supply
- RAF & emergency services
- 2012
- Salt water encroachment
- Tunisia
- already water stressed
- only 50% of all water resources can be used without restriction
- desalination plants planned
- Tunisia
- Over abstraction of rivers
- Thames
- to supply water to London area
- eco system damage
- Thames
- Trans boundary water conflict
- River Nile
- runs through 10 countries
- 8/10 cooperate
- Egypt has dominance over Nile
- majority of water used in Egypt & Sudan
- potential for conflict grows as countries develop
- Colorado river
- heavy source of irrigation
- water rights between states allocated
- California allocated 20%
- native Americans claim water rights
- 90% water used before it gets to Mexico
- River Nile
- Water transfer
- China
- not enough water in North China
- South-North transfer project
- transfers water from Yangtze to Yellow river
- man made rivers wil transfer water
- people living along the Yangtze worry there will be shortages for them
- China
- Sustainable approaches to water
- Singapore
- 2 desalination plants
- recycled water
- water sent though treatment plants after being used
- reservoirs, canals & drains collect rainwater
- water imported from Johor in Malaysia
- Singapore
- Integrated drainage basin management
- Colorado
- 1992 Colorado compact
- saving storm water by redirecting it
- re using waste water
- repairing any leaks
- amount of available water determines how much is supplies to each state
- Colorado
- Water Budgets
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