DEFORESTATION:
- in Kahama 80% of people are farmers and deforestation has occured for timber and land for tabacco
- many floods have increase because interception from trees has decreased
- cholera and diarrhoea have increase because theure struggling to find clean water
- without trees, surface runoff increases and infiltration decreases
OVER ABSTRACTION OF GROUNDWATER:
- farmers constantly pump water using pumps powered by cheap electricity provided by the government
- in some parts of the North- west India water tables are falling by 4m every year as more water is taken than returned
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