Introduction to my blog
Politics and Water in Africa: This blog aims to explore the relationship between water and politics in Africa. In the first publication, I aim to specifically outline the issue of water scarcity in Africa and establish whether the issue of water scarcity is driven by physical or human; namely political factors. In this first post, I shall define water scarcity, analyse water scarcity against physical circumstances namely precipitation before exploring human factors too. Lastly, I intend to give an overview on water storage and a few relevant methods with their shortfalls in order to try to explain water scarcity in Africa. More generally, this blog will aim to cover a multitude of issues pertaining to water and politics. This may include population, land use, food security and indeed water provision itself as these themes all have political elements within them. Figure 1: Annual Water Balance (UNEP,2012) Figure 2: Water Stress Index,