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Resource Management - Coggle Diagram
Resource Management
Key Terms
Impacts of water insecurity include pollution & disease, reduced food production, reduced industrial output, conflict
Advantages of the Kielder reservoir include HEP, reduced water insecurity in the north, tourism creating jobs and income
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Water transfer schemes are large scale engineering projects that move water from an area of surplus to an area of deficit
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Disadvantages
Although the water should be expensive the government have kept its cost low and are subsidising it, so there is no need for people of industry to change their wasteful water ways meaning that there is still a lot of water being wasted.
Raising the dam of the Danjiankou Reservoir flooded productive farmland and forced 345,000 people to move. Many received little compensation and have less land and poorly built houses
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Water stress in the south will increase because so much water is being diverted. During droughts there won’t be enough drinking water for 30 million local people worsening their social and economic well-being
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