ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
Define Safe Water - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Refers to water that is not contaminated by human waste,
disease causing pathogens, such as bacteria and viruses or chemicals such as lead and mercury.
What does Safe Water involve? - ✅✅✅CORRECT -- Involves having adequate infrastructure to supply
clean water
- Required for human consumption, ensuring optimal functioning of cells
What are the implications of not having Safe Water? - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Collecting water takes lots of
time, takes away time from pursuing education/employment, therefore decreasing social and spiritual
health.
Define Sanitation - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Refers to the provision of services and facilities for the safe
disposal of human waste, as well as the maintenance of hygienic conditions.
What are the implications of a lack of Sanitation? - ✅✅✅CORRECT -- Contaminated water supplies
increases risk of cholera, diarrhoea and typhoid
- repeated infection requires medical treatment, which increases financial stress and therefore decreases
mental health and wellbeing
Define Poverty - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Relates to deprivation of resources such as food, water and
healthcare that results from lack of access to money. People living in poverty lack the ability to access
basic resources to live healthy and fulfilling lives.
Extreme Poverty - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Proportion of people living on less than US$1.90 per day.
Relative Poverty - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Individuals living on less than 50% of the country's average
income.
, Example of High-Income country - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Australia
Example of Upper Middle-Income country - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Mexico
Example of Lower Middle-Income country - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Indonesia
Example of Low-Income country - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Zimbabwe
Low-Income salary bracket - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Average of less than $1025, based on GNI per capita
Lower Middle-Income salary bracket - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Average from $1026-$4025, based on GNI
per capita
Upper Middle-Income salary bracket - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Average from $4026-$12475, based on GNI
per capita
High-Income salary bracket - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Average more than $12476, based on GNI per capita
Economic Characteristics of countries - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Levels of poverty, Industries, Global Trade
opportunities, Debt, Income.
Social Characteristics of countries - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Gender Equality, Education, Employment, Birth
rates/Population growth, Health systems.
Environmental Characteristics of countries - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Housing, Food security, Infrastructure,
Safe water/Sanitation, CO2 emissions.
Sustainability - ✅✅✅CORRECT -Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own needs.