Bianca-Africa-Drought

​ In the 20th century in South Africa had its worst drought. The Dams and soil showed low percentage of water. The drought was spreading threw the north and eastern continent. Almost 6 million people in Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti and Kenya are at a big risk of there lives ending. In some places, the land has died and cows and even camels have died. They believe once the cows have died, there lives will soon come to an end, sadly some people have died. There has been some rain, but unfortunately it was not enough to save the people (not even close). The British aid agency Oxfam has launched an appeal for $36 million worth of aid. The money is also being used for food and water for those who live in Africa.Men, Women and children walked for miles reaching to Kenya to find water. A 41 year old women(Nuria) with five children quotes "If we do not get help from the outside we will surely die,".

A drought is created by the area having low percentage of water. Without water the trees, grass and other plants will die and the animals won't be able to find food and will die. The land will dry up and there won't be anything living in that area were the drought is occuring. A drought is a natural hazard, but humans cause global warming which also can cause terrible droughts. By causing global warming, some areas have less rain but more heat. Everywhere is getting hotter. Without food or water, humans would die in the middle of a drought.


 * How you can tell there is going to be a drought:[[image:http://a.abcnews.com/images/WNT/abc_wnt_kenya1_060322_sp.jpg width="188" height="141" align="right" caption="Kenya"]]**


 * Not much rain
 * Plants changeing to yellow
 * Big heat waves
 * Lakes/ rivers starting to dry up
 * Wild animals looking thirsty
 * Plants are unable to grow


 * To be prepare for a drought, you need:**


 * [[image:http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/images/6056-Horn-of-Africa_opt.gif width="456" height="393" align="right"]]Plenty of water
 * Lot's of food

The goverment is using, more that a thousand dollers to do its best to help the people in Africa.

Africa is a dry place where there is not much rain, which can cause some droughts. Africa is maily yellow (this is getting back to the point). Africa is in the middle of the equator, which caues Africa to be hot. Africa has less than 2000 mm of rain (on average). In January Africa is most likely to get up to 30 degrees celsius and in July the North of Africa can get up to 40 degrees celsius. In the desserts the temerature can get as high as 45°C, At nights (cloudy) it can get up to 5°C, The average savanna temperature is 25°C to 35°C (during the day) and in the rainforests can go over 30°C.

Getting back to the people, land, animals etc.... When an drought is occuring, anywhere there is water will start to dry up or have dried up, plants and trees (including fruit, vegi etc.. tree's) turn yellow and die, animals (including wild ones) are thirsty or die of thirst and the temperature is hot. All that can put humans lives at risk. The people who suffer most is the Farmers because there crops and other foods die, including there animals. Beacuse of this they can't sell or eat food. It will be expensive for people to buy food and water because there is less of it everyday.

When plant's die its a very high pertcentage that the plants would grow back. Because of this the deserts would grow.

[] Book: Heinemann Atlas Secound edition pg108 [] [] [] []