Sub-Saharan Africa

Frage	Antworten
Sub-Saharan Africa	The area of Africa under the Sahara
Sahel	Transition between the Sahara and the Savannah
Desertification	Desert expansion
Deforestation	Forests reducing
Drought	Severe lack of water
Physical scarcity	There is no water
Economic Scarcity	There's water but you can't pay for it/pay to clean it
Potable	Safe to drink
Point sources	A single, identifiable sources of pollution
Non-point sources	pollution with a not easily identified source
Jerry can	a container for storing liquid
Colonialism	Taking full control over another country
Subsistence agriculture	growing food for yourself
Displacement	moving of people because something else was placed where they lived (ex: dams)
Privatization	Companies privately owning and selling a resource
World Bank and International Monetary Fund	Worked to create a capitalist world, harming poor countries with privatization and loans
Structural Adjustment Policies	Economic policies that countries must follow to qualify for World Bank and IMF loans, hurting poor countries
Poverty	lack of money
Literacy rate	amount of people you can read/write
Cholera	a water-borne bacterial disease that causes diarrhea and dehydration
Dengue fever	A mosquito-borne disease occurring in tropical and subtropical areas.
Tri-state Water Dispute	a dispute over water between Georgia, Alabama, and Florida
Zai holes	Holes to dig and plant in
Article 31	the right to clean and accessible water
Weir	river barrier

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