Opportunities in the Desert case study Flashcards
1
Q
What are the opportunities in gas and oil reserves?
What are the challenges?
A
- Algeria’s important source of income
- large reserves underneath
- lack of infrastructure: difficult to get there
- expensive
2
Q
What the opportunities in solar power?
What are the challenges?
A
- 12 or more hours of bright sunlight per day
- can produce for 2 million homes in Western Europe
- expensive
- dust can blow over, reducing efficiency by 40%
- need to be cooled with water
3
Q
What are the opportunities in farming through irrigation?
What are the challenges?
A
- Toshka Project on River Nile
- increase Egypt’s irrigated land by 30%
- unreliable
- can leave salt crystals behind when the water evaporates
4
Q
What are the opportunities in mineral mining?
What are the challenges?
A
- Algeria possesses iron ore
- Niger has uranium
- require water
- difficult to get to due to lack of infrastructure
5
Q
What are the opportunities in tourism?
What are the challenges?
A
- camel trekking
- 10.5 million visitors to Marrakech in 2013
- driving destroys the little wildlife already there
- seasonal jobs
- deaths due to sunstroke or sunburn
- little water availability
6
Q
What are the five opportunities in the desert?
A
- tourism
- mineral mining
- solar energy
- oil and gas reserves
- farming through irrigation
