*Mining-Illegal small diamond mining degrades soil.
Indiscriminate digging clears vegetated area and triggers deforestation.
-Spreads diseases
Dug out grounds form pond where mosquitoes multiply to cause Malaria.
-Water contamination from diamond mining waste causes severe diarrhea.
*Overgrowing population
-Cutting down trees to satisfy the demand for more farmland.
*Civil War
-Depleted natural resources.
-The war consumes anout 75% of government's financial and meterial resources.
Only 57% of people have access to safe drinking water.
Soil Degradation
-Constant digging overexpose the soil to make it unsuitable for farming.
http://www.american.edu/TED/leone.htm
Encarta Reference Library.
1 comment:
Hannah--
What exactly is soil degradation?
How does mining spread diseases?
What are they mining for?
What does this have to do with deforestation?
Can you explain a bit how soil degradation and overpopulation are two big, seemingly different, problems that are actually related?
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