water.2.1 Water Security and Scarcity
Physical scarcity
Drop cards here
Economic scarcity
Drop cards here
Unsorted Cards
(12)A Sahel capital city receives less than 250 mm of rainfall per year and has no major river within 200 km.
A Pacific atoll has no rivers, and its only freshwater is a thin lens floating above salt water underground.
A semi-arid region's reservoirs no longer refill in winter because winters have become warmer and drier.
A desert country has no permanent rivers and almost no rainfall; its only freshwater is a non-renewable aquifer that formed thousands of years ago.
A Middle Eastern country has only 61 m³ of renewable freshwater per person per year, far below the international scarcity threshold of 500 m³.
An arid mountain region has only seasonal streams; they dry up completely for seven months of every year.
In a coastal town, leaking pipes lose almost 30% of treated water before it reaches homes. The utility cannot afford the repairs.
In a rural area of a tropical country, women walk three hours per day to a year-round river because no pipes have ever been laid to their village.
A region recovering from civil war has a major river running through it, but its water treatment plant was destroyed during the conflict and has not been rebuilt.
An outer, fast-growing neighbourhood on the edge of a tropical city has water mains running past it, but no household connections have been fitted.
In a low-income capital city, wealthy residents drill private boreholes while the poorest 30% pay several times the official tariff to buy water from informal vendors.
A tropical country has abundant rainfall of 1,400 mm per year, but 70% of its people lack piped drinking water because the national utility has no budget for new networks.
0:00
Sort all cards before checking (12 remaining)