Industrialisation in eastern Thailand, namely three provinces - Rayong, Chonburi and Chachoengsao has brought water conflict as the industry compete with farmers for the water resources.
Climate change has caused droughts in recent years which took a heavy toll on eastern Thailand’s water resources, adversely affecting local farmers. Flooding is a regular threat too to the farmers as saltwater flows into rivers and along the coastline is worsening.
Why does industry need water?
Why is water important for the farmers?
It is important that the water resources is shared among various stakeholders including new and existing industry, large and small agriculture, and cities and villages.
Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) is the administration of treatment doses of longer-acting antimalarial medications at monthly intervals in areas of exclusively seasonal transmission. Watch the video below on how it is carried out in Mali and Senegal.
The map shows the number of deaths from COVID-19 as at 16 April 2021.
Where are the countries which have near or more than half a million deaths from the pandemic?
You can also observe than countries with near or more than 100,000 deaths are concentrated in Europe and South America.
India seemed to be the only one in Asia with very high death rate from COVID-19. Why do you think the high death toll is higher in India?
What are the factors which affected the spread of the disease?
Are the factors similar to those in the textbook for infectious disease such as Malaria?
How effective are the measures carried out to contain the spread?
A good animation showing the earthquakes and tsunamis from 1901 to 2020.
The earthquake hypocenters (Focus) first
appear as flashes then remain as colored circles before shrinking
with time so as not to obscure subsequent earthquakes. The size of
each circle represents the earthquake's magnitude while the color
represents its depth within the earth. This animation also highlights
significant tsunamis generated by some of these earthquakes.
8.8 – Ecuador-Columbia – 31 January 1906
8.5 – Atacama, Chile 11 November 1922
8.4 – Kamchatka, Russia – 3 February 1923
8.4 – Sanriku, Japan - 2 March 1933
8.6 – Unimak Island, Aleutian Islands 1 April 1946*
9.0 – Kamchatka, Russia 4 November 1952
8.6 – Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands 9 March 1957
9.5 – Valdivia, Chile – 22 May 1960*
9.2 - Prince William Sound, Alaska – 28 March 1964*
8.7 – Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands – 4 February 1965
7.7 – Kalapana, Hawaii 29 November 1975*
8.4 – Southern Peru 23 June 2001
9.1 – Sumatra, Indonesia – 26 December 2004*
8.1 – Samoan Islands – 29 September 2009*
8.8 – Maule, Chile – 27 February 2010*
9.0 – Tohoku, Japan – 11 March 2011*
7.9 – Haida Gwaii, Canada 28 October 2012
Majority of all earthquakes occur at plate
boundaries and tsunami-causing earthquakes mostly occur
at convergent plate boundaries where the subduction zones are.
Note most of the earthquake are shallow. Why does earthquake with shallow focus have higher intensity?
Where are the areas prone to earthquakes?
How are subduction zones formed?
What caused earthquakes to form at plate boundaries?
Why are earthquake and tsunamis hazardous?
How can the damage from earthquakes and tsunamis be mitigated?
Watch the video below on how poor nutrition results in stunting in Indonesia.
What cause stunting in children?
Realising its negative impact on the country’s economic growth, the Indonesian government has set a goal to reduce the stunting rate to 14 per cent by 2024.
How does high rate of stunting affect the economy?
Diarrhea is the leading cause of child mortality in the country.
