Southwest Asia Environmental Issues

What Is causing polluted drinking water?

• Chemicals

• Garbage

• Sewage

• All of the above

True Or False

Less than 1% of the worlds fresh water is available to the area's inhabitants

• True

• False

What two rivers start in Turkey?

• Jordan, and Tigris

• Nial, and Jordan

• Hudson, and Euphrates

• Tigris, and Euphrates

True or False

Turkey does not benefit from the two rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates.

• True

• False

How may dams has Turkey built?

• 34

• 22

• 3

• 16

Turkey has a lot of fresh water available, even then does Turkey still have water pollution?

• No they don't

• They never have had that problem

• Yes they do

• They can't even touch the water it's so bad

What has caused some of Turkeys water pollution?

• Fertilizer from crops

• Industrial waste

• Oil spills

• All of the above

Since Turkey has built so many dams, how much has the amount of water decreased in Syria?

• 15%

• 20%

• 5%

• 40%

True or False

Syria suffers from food shortages

• True

• False

What did Syria do to keep some of the water in their country?

• They built dams

• Went to war with Turkey to destroy the dams

• built desalination plants a traveled far to get saltwater

• They just sat there, did nothing, and said "We are just going to use what we have got."