Water - Global Issues

Where in the world is this?

• Dominican Republic

• Cuba

• Puerto Rico

• Haiti

Child morality in Haiti is:

• 78 deaths/1000 live births

• 87 deaths/1000 live births

• 78 births/1000 deaths

• 87 births/1000 deaths

Which European countries imperialized Hispaniola?

• Spain and Great Britain

• France and Spain

• France and Great Britain

• Germany and Italy

Where is the first war over water fought?

• Somalia

• Dafür in Sudan

• Bolivia

• Bangladesh

What overpopulated country lacks clean sanitation facilities?

• Bolivia

• Haiti

• Somalia

• Bangladesh

A child dies every

• 20 minutes from diseases caused by a lack of safe water and sanitation

• 20 hours from diseases caused by a lack of safe water and sanitation

• 20 years from diseases caused by a lack of safe water and sanitation

• 20 seconds from diseases caused by a lack of safe water and sanitation

How many people in the world do not have showers or toilets?

• 2.6 million

• 2.6 billion

• 6.2 million

• 6.2 billion

All of the following reasons dams are opposed EXCEPT:

• damage fishing

• damage agriculture

• create drought

• create flooding

Haitians water capacity is limited because

• trees are cut down to make charcoal

• of earthquakes

• it must be boiled or treated before anyone can drink it

• washing and bathing are time consuming

Haiti has faced decades of environmental degradation, political unrest,

• poverty and earthquakes

• violence and poverty

• earthquakes and flooding

• droughts and flooding