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- 1ten global issues identified in the first projected reading in classfood security, inclusive growth, unemployment, climate change, global finance, privacy and other issues related to the internet, gender equality, trade and investment, macro-investments, healthcare
- 2in the dw video we watched what were the areas of the world that were having water related issueskabul, las vegas, lauenau, upper franconia, phoenix
- 3lauenau, germanydue to over consumption the fire station is now providing water by rations
- 4upper franconia, germanyscientists have been monitoring the ground water levels and it has dropped by 13m since 2012
- 5phoenix, united stateswater comes from 450km away through a long-distance pipeline system that runs right through the desert from Lake Powell, one of the two biggest reservoirs in the US. that lake is now drying
- 6las vegas, united statesit gets its water from lake mead which is also drying. a beach that used to look like Ireland is now a desert. Policies are being implemented so that lawns can only be watered on certain days. water police
- 7kabul, afganistanit has been suffering from many droughts. it's so bad that even the most rich and most powerful people have trouble getting water. they have to get waters from public wells with cannisters
- 8more than 2,000 deaths occurred in two european countries due to lack of acremember the two connected countries !!
portugal and and spain - 9describe what allows more frequent torrential downpourswith higher temperatures, more water evaporates into the air. due to the humidity, it creates larger raindrops.
- 10how have somalis been affected by the droughtone million has been displaced with over 360,000 children starving, they have no food to eat, they dont have crops to sell
- 11somalia's famine has been worsened by the lack of imports fromukraine and russia
- 12the yangtze river's water volume has been shrunk byhalf
- 13river rhine's water levels have also been lowering. this is bad because it is a importantcargo lane
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- september one 2022, resources used are as below - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/what-are-the-10-biggest-global-challenges/ - https://youtu.be/1MZFrJPPIQ8
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