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Environmental issues in SW Asia.
What is water scarcity, pollution, and unequal distribution?
Ways that water pollution directly affects drinking water and irrigation.
What is causing illness and harming crops and soil quality or reducing yield?
A major river in Southwest Asia that supports farming and settlements.
What is the Tigris or Euphrates River?
Ways pollution can be reduced to protect irrigation and drinking water.
What is treating wastewater before release, improving sewage systems, reducing industrial discharge, or enforcing regulations?
How deserts affect where people live in Southwest Asia.
What is sparse populations in the desert because of harsh climate and limited water; people liveing near rivers, oases, or coasts?
Not having enough water to meet people’s needs
What is Water Scarcity?
The way countries with limited water resources increase their available freshwater?
What is desalination?
What is the term for harmful substances that make rivers and lakes unsafe for drinking and irrigation?
What is pollution?
The major desert areas of South West Asia.
What are the Arabian and Syrian Deserts?
Historical effects of having rivers on trade routes in the Middle East.
What is providing water, transport routes, and fertile land, encouraging settlements and markets along their banks that became trade centers?
A person or group that moves from place to place rather than settling permanently.
Who are nomads?
The effects of unequal distribution of freshwater in the Middle East.
What is water scarcity in some areas, competition, reduced irrigation, migration, and conflicts?
The way hydroelectric power gets generated.
What is flowing water turning turbines that produce electricity?
How the physical characteristic of a desert has influenced the lifestyle of nomads in the region.
What is moving seasonally seeking water and grazing for animals, living in tents and adapting to scarce resources and extreme temperatures?
Water that is clean, safe, and suitable for drinking, cooking, and personal hygiene.
What is Potable Water?
Many countries in Southwest Asia have rivers that cross national borders. A factory upstream releases untreated industrial waste into a river used for irrigation and drinking by communities downstream. Describe two direct ways this water pollution would affect (a) farmers who rely on irrigation and (b) families who depend on that river for drinking water.
What is: (a) Farmers: contaminated irrigation water can damage crops, reduce yields, and make crops unsafe to sell; it can also clog irrigation systems and harm soil quality. (b) Families: polluted drinking water can cause waterborne illnesses, force households to purchase costly bottled water, and increase healthcare needs?
Advantages and disadvantages of desalination to increase water supply.
What is reducing water scarcity and creating salty brine that harms marine environments and is not ideal for irrigation without further treatment?
Economic effect of unequal distribution of natural resources within the region.
What is having weaker economies, relying on imports, having higher unemployment for regions with little resources, and resource-rich countries gaining wealth and influence?
Nomadic people of South West Asian deserts.
Who are Bedouins?