Water and Environmental Change

  Hi and welcome back to my blog!   Since I have talked about the general situation of Africa’s water under the influence of climate change in my last blogs, I would like to share you more with the elaboration of a few case studies of extreme events around Africa starting from this blog , which then shows the physical and humanitarian impacts to the affected area from different extent.   A series of problems associated with water in Africa has been triggered by climate change. Rising temperature and variations in rainfall across Africa lead to an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events —  heatwaves, droughts, floods, and storms, among others , which  continues to hit Africa’s water condition and affect human well being to a great extent over past four decades.   The rate of temperature rise for Africa in recent decades has been recorded at a rapid trend (faster than global mean temperature) that can be comparable to most other continents, with the latest predi

Hello and welcome to my blog! My name is Fansiyuan yang, and I am an international undergraduate student who is studying at the UCL geography department. The major interest of my blog is on the water and environmental change in Africa, which will be presented and explained from different  topic s  in the following weeks . For my first blog, I  will  talk about  the water problems in Africa, t he need for exploring  its  relationship  with environmental change, and  the importance of  recognizing  complexity for  this continent . Water is one of the most valuable resources on earth, especially freshwater. With the rocketing growth of the world’s population over the past 50 years, the ' water crisis ' has been raised on every continent, with the fact that "2.3 billion people live in water-stressed countries, of which 733 million live in high and critically water-stressed countries” ( UN-Water 2021 ), and “700 million people worldwide could be displaced by intense water scarc