An Introduction: Water and Environmental Change in Sahel, Africa
Hello and Welcome to my blog! My name is Kexin, and I am a third-year Earth Sciences student at UCL. I have been studying a module called "Water and Development in Africa" recently. I will be writing this blog exploring the relationship between water and environmental change in Africa, focusing on the Sahel region. Why Water and Environmental Change in Africa? Climate change is the biggest threat to humans in the 21 st century, and "water is the primary medium through which we will feel the effects of climate change" ( United Nations Water ). And Africa is the most vulnerable region in the world to climate change ( United Nations Climate Change, 2020 ). Half of its population lives in poverty, and 1 in 3 Africans suffers from water shortage ( Mason et al.2019 ). Rising temperature and changing precipitation patterns that lead to more extreme climate events such as floods and droughts are hitting Africa harder than the rest of the world, threatening food and wate