Poor structural quality and durability of housing, more than three people sharing a room, lack of tenure (the government can decide to remove the slum), poor access to water, and lack of sanitation facilities.
What is a slum?
100
Natural disasters
What do countries have to be well-prepared for?
100
Explain how the water supply is contaminated.
No proper water supply, area is flooded, people defecate in the open; water is contaminated.
100
Sanitation
What is needed to improve water quality of Asian cities?
100
Milan Piqué Mebarak
Who is Shakira and Piqué's son?
200
Brazil
Who is a role model for other countries in how to handle the problem?
200
What is the benefit of education in schools?
Proved to be a good focus for campaigns of sanitation and hygiene because waste-related diseases have been reduced.
200
Why does sanitation have to be made a priority?
Open answer. Chairs will judge.
200
Offer a solution for the contamination of the water supply.
Chairs judge.
200
Turkey
Where did the Mexican debate team go?
300
States that by the year 2020 countries should be committed to improving the life of at least 100 million people.
What is the United Nations Millennium Declaration?
300
Settlements excluded from the provision of services since local authorities do not have a process planned for such settlements.
What are informal settlements?
300
Apart from poor living conditions, what are other setbacks the urban poor live through?
Crime: rape and murder.
300
What is a way to obtain water?
What is a sanitation facility that can possibly be offered?
-Rainwater harvester
-Eco-toilets**bonus 100 points if you know how this works
300
Kim Jong Il
Who used to be president of North Korea?
400
Contamination of water with feces.
Why is cholera being spread?
400
Essential for social, economic, and environmental stability of cities.
What is urban water management?
400
Why is it important that the PPP plan be discussed with state administrative officials?
For them to get involved in the process and to receive more government aid. NGOs may start, but the government has to continue.
400
How will the improvement of their lifestyle lower crime?
It will encourage development in the area, when development increases, crime lowers.
400
Name two Latin American dictators.
Raúl Castro and Hugo Chávez
500
What is the most worrying thing fact about the cases of cholera?
They are fatal.
500
From the video you saw last workshop, what was an important human aspect?
-Dignity
-Women empowerment
500
-Infant Mortality Rate
-Maternal Mortality Rate
What do these demographic indicators show? What do they tell us?
They show the level of development and sanitation.
500
Why is UNHABITAT important to have within the committees of the United Nations? (Hint in Mumbai article.)
Transforms the lives of the people living in impoverished areas.