What is Multidimensional Poverty?
Multidimensional poverty is experiencing a lack of many basic essentials that we take for granted. Understanding it is therefore about exploring the facets of deprivation. Deprivation The most common factor indicating poverty has traditionally been the lack of money. Today, the international poverty line is $2.15 per person per day – that’s less than $800 […]
Water and Climate Change
Water Stress Water stress is when the gap between the need for water and the renewable availability of water is small. When a country must use 80% of its available water supply, that country is under “extreme water stress.”[1] Mexico, India, South Africa, even England has experienced these conditions. Parts of the US endure these […]