Water connects every aspect of life. Access to safe water and sanitation can quickly turn problems into potential – empowering people with time for school and work, and contributing to improved health for women, children, and families around the world.
Today, 785 million people – 1 in 9 – lack access to safe water and 2 billion people – 1 in 3 – lack access to a toilet. These are the people we empower.
The Tropics are one of the hottest regions on earth- which means access to safe, fresh water is imperative. However, some areas throughout this region suffer from droughts and water shortages, meaning they can’t always collect safe, fresh water. Without fresh water, a number of dangerous diseases are accessible to everyone- cholera being one of them. Water is a basic human right- and our bodies need this liquid in order to survive: to hydrate our bodies, feed our cells, and to respirate. No water access can break down communities- turn a happy, thriving village into a wasting, sick one. As I mentioned before, cholera is one of the diseases that arises in the case of severe water shortage. Symptoms of this include severe diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting, dehydration, irritability, fatigue, sunken eyes, a dry mouth, dry skin, malnourishment, low blood pressure, little or no urination and an irregular heartbeat. In rare and extreme cases, it can lead to death. Altogether, lack of access to safe and fresh water can potentially lead to many fatalities, community breakdowns and economic imbalance.
A fall line refers to an imaginary line between two parallel rivers and usually at the point where rivers fall at roughly the same height.
Fall line is the north-south running boundary where Virginia rivers drop down from resistant metamorphic rock layers onto flat sedimentary rocks. It separates the Coastal Plain and the Piedmont.
El Nino and La Nina both occur in the Pacific Ocean, and even though they occur in the southern part of the Pacific, they manage to have big influence over much larger area, and even on the whole world. When it comes to Illinois, its weather is strongly correlated with El Nino and La Nina. The summers especially, are becoming very warm and dry, despite Illinois being on higher latitudes and having large bodies of water around it. This is due to the low pressure air movements that El Nino causes to move toward the interior of North America, and as they get deeper into the continent they are becoming warmer and drier.
Our environment can change our behavior in many aspects. Suppose you want to play golf with your friends, as you predicted it is going to be a sunny day but suddenly the environment changes and it converts into a rainy day then you have to change your plan.
Humans and Environment are interconnected as they both constitute the whole Biodiversity (biggest ecosystem), and Geography explains their relationship
Living resources are technically renewable, so trees, for example, they are needed for firewood, paper, whatever else we use trees for as a 'resource.' Nonliving resources would be like coal, something that takes a long time to get there.
