How has the building of dams created problems for countries sharing rivers in Southwest Asia?

Dams limit the water available to countries further downstream

Dams are too expensive to build to be practical

Few countries have the technology needed to be able to build dams

Countries in Southwest Asia are not allowed to build dams along shared rivers

How has the use of chemical fertilizers affected water supplies in many countries in Southwest Asia?

Water supplies have contaminated by the chemicals through runoff from the fields

Use of chemical fertilizers means crops must be watered constantly

Enormous amounts of water must be used to produce chemical fertilizers

Chemical fertilizers have had very little effect on local water supplies in Southwest Asia

Why aren't desalinization and drip irrigation used more in Southwest Asia?

These technologies are very expensive for the countries to use

Most countries do not know about these technologies

Drip irrigation is not very effective in a hot, dry climate

Few countries in Southwest Asia have access to seawater

Why is there so much competition for fresh water in SW Asia?

The water supply is distributed unevenly, and there is not enough water to support the needs of the people, so it must be used wisely

There is so much water that countries want to collect as much as they can to sell to countries facing droughts on other continents

The mountain and plateau regions take water from the desert regions because the deserts have a surplus

There is water scarcity near rivers and coastlines

Why do people in S.W. Asia live around rivers and waterways?

access to freshwater for growing crops and for drinking

access to salt water for cooking

people don't live in these areas

Why is the Suez Canal so important to international shipping?

It makes it possible to get from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea without sailing around Africa.

It allows ships to get out of the Persian Gulf.

It connects the Jordan River to the Persian Gulf, making it cheaper to ship oil to other parts of Southwest Asia.

It is Iraq’s only waterway to the Persian Gulf.

What is a nomadic herder?

a person with no permanent home that travels with a herd of animals looking for food and water

a person that lives in the desert

a person that travels through the desert to work in the oil industry

a person that travels to the city during the week, but then returns to the desert on the weekend

Which would be an example of an ethnic group in Southwest Asia (the Middle East)?

People who speak the Kurdish language

People who believe in monotheism

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