REPORT3

__**Drought in Africa**__ Water shortage is not a myth and it is becoming a serious problem in several different parts of the world. Water shortage is caused by drought, drought is caused by high temperatures not allowing rain to fall, and these un-natural high temperatures are caused by the known issue, global warming. There are a couple of things causing these problems for living things in Africa but the main problem that challenges Africans is global warming. Africa needs the worlds help to save their country.

In several different parts of the world water shortage isn’t a myth and in those parts of the world the environment and people are in peril. Out of all the places in the world Africa is the continent that has undergone the greatest physical beating from water depletion. Three places in Africa that are in major trouble are Niger, Mali, and Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, Niger, and Mali farmers are losing their jobs and lives because of drought. Drought in Africa is causing crops to shrivel up and die, also it’s causing farm animals to die of thirst. Each year in Africa the farmers lose a lot of crops to locusts because the locusts swarm their fields and eat their crops but most farmers are able to pull through that and survive. However now that farmers have to deal with locusts, severe drought, and water depletion the process of growing crops too much for them to handle so their kind is staving and dieing out. Drought is causing farm animals in Africa to die of thirst and without these animals farmers can’t grow a lot of crops, and the crops that do grow are either being eaten by locusts or also dieing due to water depletion. The situation in Africa is like a domino effect, each event that occurs has a consequence and each consequence will cause the inhabitants of Africa a lot of suffering and hardship.

The water shortage problem in Africa is being caused by global warming. Global warming is a known issue all around the world it’s the increase of the earth’s temperature due to the increase of carbon dioxide and too many chlorofluorocarbons being released into the air. The increase of temperature in Africa caused by global warming is evaporating a lot of water and causing severe drought in Ethiopia, Niger, and Mali. If the world doesn’t REALLY start trying to fix global warming the entire earth will be suffering from water shortage and perhaps even deadlier problems.

There are several things that we can do to help decrease global warming. Chlorofluorocarbons are the main particles that cause Ozone depletion and a couple of everyday things omit them. The best way that we can slow global warming is to cut down on things that omit chlorofluorocarbons into the air; one thing that does this is a car air conditioner, so when you have the air conditioner running in your car remember to close your window. Chlorofluorocarbons are used in things that we use every day but we defiantly can cut down on the amount we use. Water depletion isn’t a myth and it’s going to spread if we don’t cut down on the chlorofluorocarbons that we’re omitting into the air. We are going to be having the same problems as Ethiopia, Niger, and Mali soon if we do not learn to control our atmosphere.