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Mind Map by Emilie Perreault, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Emilie Perreault
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Week 8: Water, Food, Malnutrition
- Water availability
- Water availability
- Increasing demand for irrigation,
industrialization, domestic use
- Future
- Higher demand, less
supply - less water
availability
- Higher demand, less
supply - less water
availability
- Increasing demand for irrigation,
industrialization, domestic use
- Water Stress
- Physical water stress
- Physical access is limited;
scarcity occurs when resources
don't meet demand
- Physical access is limited;
scarcity occurs when resources
don't meet demand
- Economic water stress
- Water present but require
economic resources that
aren't
- Water present but require
economic resources that
aren't
- Physical water stress
- Day Zero
- The day where water
reserves drop to
minimum level to
sustain critical services
- Regulating water use,
rationing, reusing water
- The day where water
reserves drop to
minimum level to
sustain critical services
- Water Quality Issues
- Harmful algal blooms
- Population explosion of toxic
algal caused by excess
nutrients
- Toxic, produces
neurotoxins
- Toxic, produces
neurotoxins
- Increase temperatures
increase rate and growth of
toxic algae
- Population explosion of toxic
algal caused by excess
nutrients
- Precipitation and temperature
changes affect quantity and
quality of water
- Contaminates water,
increases
water-related
illnesses
- Contaminates water,
increases
water-related
illnesses
- Climate Influence
- Increase precipitation
increases runoff,
increasing risk to
contaminated water
- Increase precipitation
increases runoff,
increasing risk to
contaminated water
- Harmful algal blooms
- Agriculture
- Agriculture Revolution
- Shift from foraging to farming - predictable
food source, development of villages, raises
earth's carrying capacity
- Shift from foraging to farming - predictable
food source, development of villages, raises
earth's carrying capacity
- Green Revolution
- Increase agriculture production
through high-yield crop varities,
fertilizers, pesticides
- Increase agriculture production
through high-yield crop varities,
fertilizers, pesticides
- Impacts
- GHG emissions, high
water use, water
pollution, air pollution,
soil erosion, etc.
- Increase food production
- Declines
ecosystems
ability crop
productivity,
food scarcity
- GHG emissions, high
water use, water
pollution, air pollution,
soil erosion, etc.
- Solutions
- Eating less meat
- GMO's
- Flour-like protein powder
made from CO2, H2O and
electricity
- Eating less meat
- Agriculture Revolution
- Undernourishment and Food Insecurity
- Climate impacts
- Quantity and quality of food harvest
- Threatens food production
- Quantity and quality of food harvest
- Threats to food insecurity
- Poverty
- Higher food prices
- Agriculture stress
- Poverty
- Climate impacts
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