water issues in mozambique
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Water issues in Beira,Mozambique
By Abbasi Dawood
Contents
• Introduction• Social problems• Beira• objective• 3 axis (SWOT)
Objectives
• Identify resources used to solve water issue in Beira?
introduction• Located at southeast Africa
• Population : 22million • GDP (Nominal) : $582
• Natural gas reserves: 127.4 billion cubic meter
• Average income : 40cent a day
• land: 786,380 sq km water: 13,000 sq km
Social problems• Low life expectancy & high child mortality rate
• 17 million drinking dirty water
• Only 17% of households
• Health issues 50 children dying everyday
BeiraSecond largest city
Lies on Pungue River meeting indian ocean
Easiest place to catch malaria
Population of 412,588
300,000 drinking dirty water
Major issue : Drought
Major cause of deathsWaterborne disease : hepatitis A, typhoid fever
38/100 deaths
Drought & lower river level
• 75% of city
• Resulting
• Waterborne disease
3 axis : Physical (Water, Land)
3 axis : human (affected people, labor, engineers)
3 axis :immaterial (government, NGO)
References• http://www.glica.org/topics/show/69• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beira,_Mozambique• https://
www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/mz.html
• http://www.indexmundi.com/mozambique/area.html• http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays/comp/cw23water.htm• http://greatindaba.com/issue/march-2010-vol-7/article/pungwe-
river-floods-beira-zimbabwe-road• http://www.planet-action.org/automne_modules_files/
polyProjects/public/r9594_93_kusangaya_cc_sea_level_rise_beira_planet_action.pdf