Thursday 21 July 2016

case study: an area where economic development is taking place causing the environment to be at risk

•case study: Lesotho Highlands 


•water activity is in the East, where areas right near the coast have over 1000mm of rainfall

•description of economic activity 
          •growing 5% annually 
          •75% are subsistence farmers 
          •15% unemployment 
          •45km Katse Dam
          •South Africa pays Lesotho £20m a year and is royalty based, but has lots of corruption where large companies have offered bribes 
          •plan to build more dams as the Mohave Dam was successful 
          •costs about $8bn, important assistant from the World Bank
          •uses HEP to generate more money 
          •tourists visit the Katse Gardens, where people can learn about the 140 species along the Senqu river and stay in the Katse Lodge, overlooking the water 


•ways at which the environment is at risk - local 
          •houses in 7 villages by the Katse Dam in the reservoir were damaged by an earthquake (4)
          •tremors have been created due to increase in water pressure 
          •Ash river upstream from the Katse Dam has its biodiversity affected e.g water levels too low for the Maluti Minow 
          •ruined 100km of tarred road 
          •LWHP moved communities and 2000 households, and 100ha arable land was lost 
          •the dam threatened the important alpine flau of the Lesotho Highlands 
          •the dam has shown signs of cracking 



•solutions to manage the risk 
          •20ha of Katse Botanical gardens, established in 1995 to reserve 150 species 
          •the Katse Botanical gardens try to promote enjoyment and knowledge of the alpine flat 
          •the garden has a unique collection representing the dry Senqu River vegetation
          •the environment unit coordinated programmes on natural resource management e.g areas of archeology, flora and fauna  
          •promoting sustainability by stopping communities using these resources 
          •fish numbers are being monitored  

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