1. African Environmental Challenges

2. Water Pollution – dirty water from factories and human/animal waste
Don’t have enough clean water (Nile, niger, and congo rivers are very important to all who live near)
Factories, fertilizers, oil spills, and people pollute Water
Produces disease, environmental damage

3. Unequal distribution of Water
Not enough access to water/rivers for population
Water is needed for agriculture
Polluted water from both industrial and natural waste make the need for clean water even greater
Local / Regional Conflict caused by Dams on Rivers

4. Poor Soil & Deforestation
Need for jobs / need for wood products
Expanding population – need for habitable land
forest cleared for farms /used for overgrazing
Droughts (little rainfall) limits nutrients / hurts soil
Expansion of the sahel leads to Desertification
African Ecosystem impacted

5. Desertification 1/3rd of Africa is involved
Deforestation contributes to the problem:
Poor soil due to poor farming techniques
barriers removed + Drought = Wind erosion
Land overused – powdery soil blows away
Leads to less food, migration by population
Expanding Sahara, Kalahari +
Shrinking Savana and rain forest
= Less living space for all