Social+Studies

STEM Social Studies Research

Model United Nations Research- Country Profile and Water Issues
__**Online Database Resources:**__ __**@http://opac.aacps.org/school.asp?SchoolType=1&sID=122**__

Culture Grams (Background) Britannica Academic (Background) SIRS Researcher (Current Issues) Grolier Online (Current Issues)

__**Websites:**__ Afghanistan: @http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2014/12/02/increased-access-clean-drinking-water-improves-health

http://results.usaid.gov/afghanistan/health/water-supply-and-sanitation#fy2012

Brazil: @http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/southamerica/brazil/explore/water-guardians.xml

@http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-28/brazil-vows-water-supply-is-under-control-as-basins-dry.html

@http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21601280-dry-weather-and-growing-population-spell-rationing-nor-any-drop-drink

@http://www.waterblog.suez-environnement.com/en/2012/06/08/water-challenges-in-brazil/

Zimbabwe: @http://www.redcross.org.uk/en/What-we-do/Health-and-social-care/Health-issues/Water-and-sanitation/Water-and-sanitation-in-Zimbabwe

http://www.our-africa.org/Zimbabwe

@http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/11/19/zimbabwe-water-and-sanitation-crisis

@http://healthmap.org/site/diseasedaily/article/poor-water-quality-threatens-zimbabwes-health-4212

Ghana: @http://water.org/country/ghana/

@http://news.wypr.org/post/clean-water-short-supply-ghana

Nigeria: @http://www.eldis.org/id21ext/h10ms4g1.html

Ethiopia: http://thewaterproject.org/water-in-crisis-Ethiopia

@http://water.org/country/ethiopia/

@http://thewaterproject.org/water-in-crisis-ethiopia Haiti: @http://www.haitiwater.org/why/why-clean-water

http://thewaterproject.org/water-in-crisis-Haiti

@http://water.org/country/haiti/

@http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/04/13/150302830/water-in-the-time-of-cholera-haitis-most-urgent-health-problem

@http://www.wflhaiti.org/about-haiti/haiti-overview.html

Canada: @http://www.wwf.ca/conservation/freshwater/riversatrisk/

Turkey: @http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/03/turkey.water.shortage/index.html?_s=PM:WORLD

Pakistan: @http://www.usip.org/olivebranch/water-problems-pakistan-s-overlooked-security-issue

@http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/pakistans-new-big-threat-isnt-terrorism-its-water/277970/

@http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/10/111012-india-pakistan-indus-river-water/

@http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/21/world/asia/21kashmir.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

Vietnam: @http://thewaterproject.org/water-in-crisis-vietnam

General Water Issues - Global: @http://www.wateraid.org/ng/news/news/africas-dirty-secret

@http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/carl_teichrib-6-99.html

@http://www.unep.org/themes/Freshwater/Regions/index.asp

@http://reliefweb.int/report/angola/development-new-threats-aggravate-africas-water-crisis

@https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

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@http://water.org/water-crisis/water-facts/water/

@http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/index.shtml

@http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/africa.shtml