23.5 million people in America live in a food desert. A food desert is a geographic area where affordable and nutritious food is difficult to obtain, usually in rural areas and low-income communities. Not being able to have easy access to grocery stores changes multiple things. Most of the time you have to buy multiple of one item to prevent running out. This causes a problem because fruits and vegetables do not stay ripe forever.
However in Egypt, the country is mainly dessert. This means that there is little to no rain all year, meaning that it can be difficult to manage the water supply for the country. Countries situated next to other countries which use trans-boundary sources, such as Bangladesh, which is next to India, can also be a physical factor which contributes to high water stress levels, as they often have to share water supply. For example, Bangladesh and India both share water supply from the Ganges, however there have been disputes about the Farakka Dam being built in India which has cut off a lot of the water supply to Bangladesh. Another physical factor is whether the country has space which stores extra water such as aquifer, as this can be something for a country to use if the main water supply does potentially run out.
This issue has been a larger struggle due to the harsh climate. There has been a decrease in rainfall of about 29-49% which would mean that they land is badly managed due to the lack of water. The average temperature of the region has increased meaning that
The Great Depression also severely impacted the lives of farmers. Farmers could no longer afford their land so they had to move away and this led to more problems such as foreclosure and starvation. Farms became vacant which created dust bowls which were basically sandstorms that made a huge mess of the air. The Great Depression had a huge effect on the whole world but mostly the United States. There were not only economic effects but also psychological, cultural, and political effects as well.
Water Wars Ben Bernanke World Geography Ms. Glenda Witch June 25, 2010 Approximately one-third of the world’s population is suffering from water scarcity. The Great Lakes of the United States and Canada make up the largest body of fresh water on the planet, as those without search for fresh water, the very existence of the Great Lakes is in constant threat of diversion. Entreperneurs, farmers, and recreational users all have their eye on the prize, but with eight U.S. States and two Canadian Provinces now working to protect this important resource things are moving in the right direction. The Great Lakes consist of five lakes: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. These lakes lie on the U.S./Canadian
High maintenance crops such as rice paddies are another main cause for the lack of water in the area. Overall, the lack of water for irrigation in the Central Asia area is due to over usage of certain rivers for irrigation, very poor water irrigation systems that are not efficient, flooding and depleting rivers, and finally, crops that are in need of great deals of water and will not be able to thrive without it. Works
These unstable rainfalls caused economical and environmental problems within both groups living in Jamestown. Cold and dry winter created the era called the “starving time,” these crops didn’t have time to grow during the summer because of a huge lack of rain. If the Powhatan’s couldn’t trade the crops that were
Poverty affects millions of people worldwide; some places more than others. But what exactly is poverty and what are the causes of it? According to Wikipedia, Poverty is the lack of basic human needs, such as clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter, because of the inability to afford them. This is also referred to as absolute poverty or destitution. About 1.7 billion people live in absolute poverty.
Water pollution not only does huge damage to our environment but also to our health. Water is the most precious resource on our planet, and water pollution is the main reason why freshwater resources are constantly declining, and the worst part in the whole story is the fact that there are still many people in the world who do not take water pollution problem seriously. It is said that due to the difference in pollution control costs, "dirty" companies from Canada and the United States are established in Mexico, making it a "pollution
With 12% of the GDP earned by 16% of the population, it’s HDI is 0.72, has a lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality (bad healthcare) and considered less developed. Reasons for less developed are as follows, the north (especially west) are the Amazon rivers, which are humid, rains and floods all the time and gives diseases. It is sparsely populated and hardly developed. The north eastern part is mainly plateau highland, experiences frequent droughts (once in 1992 affected 9m people) and the land is infertile, soil is eroded and we have problems such as deforestation. Soil washes away during rains and this causes another series of problems.