Water conflicts

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Name 3 physical factors
Climate, river systems and geology
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What can cause water stress
Agriculture, industry and domestic use
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How can human activity have an impact
Pollution, over extraction and salt water incursion
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What is NGO
Non-governmental organisation
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what % of worlds fresh water is in India
4%
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what % of worlds population is in India
16%
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What year will Indias demand exceed supply?
2020
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what % of worlds fresh water is in China
8%
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what % of worlds population is in China
22%
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When are stress levels expected to occur in China?
2030
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What is the annual population growth in Beijing?
2.5%
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Name a river system that has been affected by water transfers
Kissimi
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Where is the aral sea
Between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
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What is a water transfer
moving water between two areas
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what is the name given to removing salt from water
Desalination
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What country suffers largely from a saline water table
Australia
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Name 4 water transfer projects
China south-north, ebro river, snowy mountains and israel
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Name 2 players/stakeholders in the aral sea
Fishermen, the former soviet government
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Name a dam
3 gorges
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Why did animals begin to die in the Aral sea?
The water became too saline
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