Ch 21, sec 3 Flashcards
How many dams and hydroelectric pwoer plants in Turkey building?
22 dams and 19 plants
How many homes can one dam power?
1.3 million
How many villages and people will dams submerge?
200 villages and 80,000 people
What is the village that has some of the oldest human settlements that was submerged/
Hasankeyf
What do the dams in Turkey do?
Restrict water to Iraq and Syria
What are 3 irrigation techniques?
Drip irrigation, Qana (underground water canals), and aqueducts (aboveground water canals)
Where was drip irrigation developed?
Israel
Why is desalination difficult?
It can work for smaller areas, but huge populations is can be expensive and there is a lack of the technology for it
What does MENA mean?
Middle East Northern Africa
What is fossil water?
natural, old water stored in aquifers
What % of MENA has access to freshwater?
%1
How much will the pop in MENA be by 2050?
double to 600M
What % of irrigation water in Yemen goes to qat?
40%
What is qat?
drugs basically in Yemen
How long does it take to refill aquifer oil?
at least 30,000 years
How much os the world’s proven oil reserves does MENA hold?
64.5%
How many gallons makes up one barrel?
42 gallons
What is considered the largest act of environment terrorism?
the 1991 Persian Gulf Oil Spill after Iraq dumped 11 M barrels of Kuwait’s oil
