Water issues in Beira,Mozambique

By Abbasi Dawood

Contents

• Introduction• Social problems• Beira• objective• 3 axis (SWOT)

Objectives

• Identify resources used to solve water issue in Beira?

introduction• Located at southeast Africa

• Population : 22million • GDP (Nominal) : $582

• Natural gas reserves: 127.4 billion cubic meter

• Average income : 40cent a day

• land: 786,380 sq km water: 13,000 sq km

Social problems• Low life expectancy & high child mortality rate

• 17 million drinking dirty water

• Only 17% of households

• Health issues 50 children dying everyday

BeiraSecond largest city

Lies on Pungue River meeting indian ocean

Easiest place to catch malaria

Population of 412,588

300,000 drinking dirty water

Major issue : Drought

Major cause of deathsWaterborne disease : hepatitis A, typhoid fever

38/100 deaths

Drought & lower river level

• 75% of city

• Resulting

• Waterborne disease

3 axis : Physical (Water, Land)

3 axis : human (affected people, labor, engineers)

3 axis :immaterial (government, NGO)

References• http://www.glica.org/topics/show/69• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beira,_Mozambique• https://

www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/mz.html

• http://www.indexmundi.com/mozambique/area.html• http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays/comp/cw23water.htm• http://greatindaba.com/issue/march-2010-vol-7/article/pungwe-

river-floods-beira-zimbabwe-road• http://www.planet-action.org/automne_modules_files/

polyProjects/public/r9594_93_kusangaya_cc_sea_level_rise_beira_planet_action.pdf