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Use the Text
and the Data Table to fill in the blank
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Choose
a low-income country in Sub-Saharan Africa and one in Asia (South
and East) and the Pacific, and write their names in the first column. |
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Choose
a middle-income country in Europe and Central Asia, one in Middle
East and North Africa, and one in South America, and add them to
the first column. |
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Choose
a high-income country in North and Central America and the Caribbean,
one in Europe and Central Asia, and one in Asia (South and East)
and the Pacific, and add them to the first column. |
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Label
each country in your data table with an L, M, or H to show which
income group it belongs to: low, middle, or high. |
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Read
the definitions of access
to safe water, population
growth rate, and GNP
per capita. Go to the Data Table, and
for each of your countries, find the percentage of population with
access to safe water (1990–96), average annual population growth
rate (1980–98), and GNP per capita (1998), and write this information
in the appropriate columns of your data table. If data for one of
the indicators are not available, select another country from the
same income group and region. |
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Rank
the countries, with "1" equaling the highest access to
safe water and "8" the lowest. Write the appropriate ranking
number in parentheses after the data in column 4. |
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Study
your chart and answer the following questions: |
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the countries with less than 50 percent access to safe water, are
the other indicators high or low? In the countries with 50 to 69
percent access to safe water, are the other indicators higher or
lower than in the below 50 percent access countries? In the countries
with 70 or more percent access to safe water, are the other indicators
higher or lower than in the other countries? |
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Does
access to safe water follow the same trends as the other development
indicators in your chart? |
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Fill in the
blank table bolow using the following instructions.
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In
the first column, write the same country names that you used in
your table for the question #2. |
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In
the second column, give their data for the Access to safe water,
1990-96. |
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Use
the Environmental Data Tables to find the
Access to sanitation, 1990-96 for each of your countries and fill
in column 3 in your table. |
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Label
each country in your data table with an L, M, or H to show which
income group it belongs to: low, middle, or high. |
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Within
each country, which indicator is higher, access to safe water or
to sanitation? Compare your results with those in question 2d. Do
your countries follow similar trends? If not, what could be some
possible reasons for the differences? |
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f. |
Judging
from your data, which indicator tends to be more linked to country
income group, access to safe water, or access to sanitation? |
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g. |
Make
a general statement about access to safe water and sanitation and
development. |
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