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WATER
Lesotho
A country within South Africa
It can be found below the Tropic of Capricorn
It is encircled by international borders
It's crossed a river
it is 150km away from the Indian Ocean
Surronded by South Africa
Different views
Reasons in favour of the LHWP are:
Water all year
Better jobs
Develop industry and other services
Tourism
development of local economy
A surplus for safe
Reasons against of the LHWP are:
Farms are underwater
Nothing to export
Import 90% of products
Soil erosion due to heavy rainfall
Managing water supply further solutions
Drina River Basin in the Western Balkans where Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia cooperate over transboundary waters
Problems that a country upstream can cause for a country downstream of it are:
upstream countries use more water
upstream countries give to downstream polluted water
unequale division of water
risk of conflict
The yangtze or Yangzi in the China is a river basin that is entirely in the control of the country
Access to clean water
And
water Borneo desease
Water pollution increasing in countries the China and LEDCS because there's rapid urban growth, rising industrialisation, mining and modern farming methods
Water pollution can affect the healt of people because it causes desease (cholera)
Water pollution can affect the size of working population because the water contamined is used for irrigation, so the food will be contained too
water pollution can affect the economic development of a country because the quality of water is reduced by polluted groundwater, industrial drains
The water transfer scheme
The west of Lesotho has a
water
deficit beacuse it receives less than 250 mm of rainfall per year
LHWP will improve the water supply in the west of Lesotho by the tunnels and pipelines that transfer water to the dry area