EARTHSC 2WW3 Chapter Notes -Millennium Development Goals, Sub-Saharan Africa, Waterborne Diseases

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Per capita water resources have declined since 1960s. African continent have had substantial loss in access not necessarily less, however could be infrastructure collapse, of government etc to give access to resources has diminished. Not just physical components, and climatic, but also social components to loss of freshwater. Countries with least abundant resources tend to depend almost exclusively on rainfall. Areas in north have lots of freshwater, peak in freshwater resources is. Loss of water from tropical rainforest etc. Greenland has most freshwater resources per capita not surprising considering island covered by large ice sheets that are nearly 2 km thick. In canada and russia, so much water because of snow melt. In brazil, no snowmelt so because of climate, because of local patterns of air circulation which leads to abundant water sources. Middle east exclusively on rainfall or possibly deep groundwater resources. Countries with the least amount of resources where nature provides the least.

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