Water Cycle Enquiry 3 Case Studies

Physical and economic scarcity, California insecurity, Aral Sea Kazakhstan, Dubai aquifer abstraction, The Nile and Jordan River conflicts, water management inc. SNWTP, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Colorado River

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Physical scarcity	South-east australia
Economic scarcity	Sub-Saharan Africa
California lake + capacity + year	Shasta lake, 31%, 2022
No. warmest years after 2000	11 of 20
2020 wildfire	1 milllion acres
Aral Sea 1960	4th largest inland lake
Aral Sea 1960	60000km3
Aral Sea shrank by 2010	90%
Causes	Over abstraction
Causes	Cotton and rice irrigation
Causes	Pollution
Causes	July evaporation
Causes	HEP
Dubai aquifer	Arabian
Depleted in	1980s
Causes	Agricultural independance
Effects	1/3 farms in abu dhabi abandoned
Management	Desalination
Management	Rain making with silver iodide
WATER CONFLICTS SAY YAY	YAY
The Nile countries	11 north east african
The Nile full rights (2)	Egypt, Sudan
The Nile agreement year	1959
The Nile population + year	300 million, 2017
Conflicts	Direct abstraction
Conflicts	Dams
The Nile HEP project	Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Concerns	Evaporation losses
Jordan river countries	5 middle eastern
Arab League plan + year	Headwater Diversion Plan, 1964
Israel supply reduction	11%
Israel: "____"	Infingement of sovereign rights
Reaction + year	Air strikes, 1967
War	6 day war with Syria
SNWTP cost + area	79 billion, central and eastern
Transfers m3	45 billion
From ___ to ____	Yangtze, Yellow
Number of cities	20
Number of people	100
Singapore factors	Few natural sources
Singapore factors	High living standards
Singapore factors	High per capita consumption
Population	6 million
Water consumption /day	400 million
Management	Saving water
Management	Recycling
Management	Desalination
Management	Marina Barrage
% from recycling	40
% from desalination	40
Water saving methods	Campaigns
Water saving methods	Scaled pricing
Water saving results	Fallen 15L/day since 2003
Colorado river people	40 million
Colorado river states	7
Colorado river plan year	2007
Colorado river allocation	Based on deficit

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