AT1 Flashcards
LIST broad impact categories water crisis Ethiopia
Social
Economic
LIST social impacts water crisis in Ethiopia
Health
Education
EXPLAIN how poverty effects health in Ethiopia
Poverty → inability to: buy medicine, receive medical attention
LIST 3 categories of diseases caused by water Ethiopia
Water-washed
Waterborne
Water based
DEFINE water-washed diseases (health)
diseases caused by a lack of hygiene
LIST water-washed diseases
shigella
dysentery
scabies
leprosy
trachoma
skin infections
ulcers
DEFINE waterborne diseases
diseases spread when humans ingest water contaminated with faeces
LIST waterborne diseases
Typhoid
Cholera
Hepatitis
Dysentery
Diarrheal diseases
DEFINE water based diseases
diseases transmitted by aquatic organisms
EXAMPLE of water based disease
Schistosomiasis
→ caused by worm penetrating skin during bath or ingested by contaminated water
→ second most deadly parasitic disease behind malaria
EXPLAIN how poverty effects education in Ethiopia
Children don’t go to school
→ providing for the family
→ perpetuates cycle of poverty
LIST % boys enrolled primary school Ethiopia
86%
LIST % girls enrolled primary school Ethiopia
81%
LIST % children attend primary school Ethiopia
45%
IDENTIFY why most children in Ethiopia don’t go to school
providing for families
→ working to earn money
→ getting water
sick
IDENTIFY population Ethiopia
123.4 million
IDENTIFY % no access clean water
48%
IDENTIFY % no access basic sanitation
90%
IDENTIFY economic consequence water crisis Ethiopia
Poverty
IDENTIFY % population live in rural areas
85%
IDENTIFY industry Ethiopia is mostly dependent on
Agricultural industry
IDENTIFY relationship between poverty and drought in Ethiopia
drought = poverty
increase in drought, increase in poverty
EXPLAIN link between drought and poverty in Ethiopia
most people work in agriculture
drought = non-profitable agricultural yield
non-profitable agricultural yield = poverty
Therefore, drought = poverty
