What is the Cause of the High Maternal Mortality Rate in Sub-Saharan Africa? The causes could total 50 or they could be only one‚ what are the primary causes of the high maternal mortality rate in sub-Saharan Africa? There are 4 major reasons why this impoverished region of the world grapples with such a challenge. First and foremost is the magnitude of poverty in the region. Secondly‚ the lack of maternal services available to the population both pre and post delivery. Thirdly‚ the lack education
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Clean water is extremely essential for a healthy living. It is life’s most important basic necessity while dirty water is one of the deadliest killers. UN has estimated that 10 people die every minute from contaminated water. The World Health Organization estimates that 80% of all sickness and disease in developing countries is due to unsafe water. As water pollution is one of the most widespread problems and it has deadly effects‚ I chose this topic. Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies
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Missionary Activities in Africa Student’s Name Instructor Name Course Code Date Institution Missionary Activities in Africa This essay explores the missionaries’ activities in Africa by looking at the landscape of the land that they encountered‚ the people that they interacted with and the experience that they acquired from the travel. The essay also focuses on the social aspect by looking at the impact the missionaries had on the indigenous people. Through studying the key missionaries
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Title : Water Crisis Introduction : - water always been a natural resource - 80 countries now facing water shortage ‚ 2 billion people lack access to clean water. - global demand for fresh water will vastly outstrip reliable supply in many parts of world. - 97.5% of water is sea water ‚ left 2.5 % of “ fresh water “ but inside include glacier ‚ ice packs ‚ soil moisture ‚ atmosphere ‚ groundwater . Factors driving to this situations : 1. Demographic pressure population growth rate
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Wastewater Wastewater is any water that has been adversely affected in quality by anthropogenic influence. It comprises liquid waste discharged by domestic residences‚ commercial properties‚ industry‚ and/or agriculture and can encompass a wide range of potential contaminants and concentrations. In the most common usage‚ it refers to the municipal wastewater that contains a broad spectrum of contaminants resulting from the mixing of wastewaters from different sources. Sewage is correctly the
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South African Unemployment The Republic of South Africa‚ while certainly taking forever to do so‚ made monumental leaps with regards to civil rights when in the early 1990s when the government repealed Apartheid legislation and had its first universal elections held in 1994. A quick look at GDP numbers and you would find that South Africa has the largest economy in Africa‚ and so without delving deep into it one might think that the economy and country have been prospering post Apartheid. After
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One of the World’s great environmental problems - Water The water problem is today one of the greatest problems the world faces. The UN calculates that if the present development continues the 2/3 of the world population will live with serious water scarcity or nearly without water by the year 2025. The UN calculates that one should have 100 litres of water pr day to manage. This is for everything - home consumption‚ agriculture‚ industry‚ etc. Many people today have less than 50 litres‚ and in
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differences‚ remain similar in many ways as well. In fact‚ such groups tend to live in similar ecosystems even when living across the globe. Obviously these areas that foragers have chosen to inhabit have dictated their lifestyle. The !Kung of South Africa and the Aborigines of Australia are two foraging groups that display more similarities than differences in their ways of subsistence and daily life. Numerous similarities exist between the !Kung and the Aborigines. Both groups rely on the bounty
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2011 Special Report Valuing Water: HoW Can Businesses Manage tHe CoMing sCarCity? http://environment.wharton.upenn.edu • http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu sponsors The Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL) and Knowledge@ Wharton have partnered to create this special report on business and the environment. We are most grateful to the Xerox Foundation for supporting collaboration and funding of this edition. Contents Valuing Water: How Can Businesses Manage the
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“By 2015 half of the world will be short of water” Mohammed Allaf As the population of the world grows and grows and has reached the 7 billion mark‚ more and more fresh water is needed for the population to be used for drinking‚ cooking‚ washing and all the day to day uses of water. Thus trying to find fresh water has become a major threat because of the heavy consumption and need. And as this happens the poorer countries would be affected the most because of their inability to fund to
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