Global Issue - Water Crisis

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Grade 9 Geography Global Issue-Water Crisis Geography Speech Good Afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the United Nations Annual Conference of 2009, I really appreciate the time you have given me to explain the importance of my topic, based on my findings. As other guest speakers have stated their conclusions on a current global issue, I would like to expand on this and make clear how precious the World’s water really is. Does anyone know where this location is? This is a small area in Africa called Darfur, which is divided into many villages in Sudan. Even though many people are dying
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because of the conflict that is occurring in Sudan; the reason that most of the 3600 people are dying everyday is because they don’t have access to clean drinkable water. Here in Darfur every drop of rain water is worth its weight in gold. The rainy season is from July to September, transforming much of the region from dust brown to lush green; as much of Darfur is agricultural, the rain is vital. However Darfur is undergoing a serious water crisis, as the rainfall in Darfur has decreased since the droughts in the 1980s by over a third. These droughts ...

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