Contested Planet - Water Conflicts

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What percentage of precipitation in California is left for human use?
22%
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what is the spatial imbalance of supply and demand of water in California?
75% of the rainfall is in the north but 75% of the demand comes from the South
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What was the cost of the Three Gorges Dam?
$22.5 billion
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How many people were displace by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam?
1.9 million
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How much electricity will the Three Gorges Dam generate?
18,000 MW - this will power 1/3 of chinese homes
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How many tonnes of GHG have been cut since the construction of the dam?
100 million tonnes
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What was the cost of China's North-South transfer project?
$62 billion
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What is the length of the transfer project?
13,000 km
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What rivers does the transfer project involve?
water is shifted from the Yangtze, Huai and Han rivers to the Yellow river
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how many people were diplaced for the transfer project?
380,000 people
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What year is China expected to reach 'water stress levels' ?
2030
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What type of scarcity is India an example of?
Physical scarcity
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Why does North India have a more secure water supply?
Permeable rocks to allow aquifers, recieves a large amount of relief rainfall, 3 major rivers in the North (Ganges, Indus & Brahmaputra)
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The Nile is shared by how many countries? Name 3.
10 countries share the resources of the Nile, e.g. Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, DRC, Kenya and Rwanda
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what country (using the Nile) uses 93% of water use for agricultural puposes?
Ethiopia
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what percentage of water for Australia does the Murray Basin provide?
75% and 85% of their irrigation water
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how many people is the Murray Darling Basin home to?
2 million
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