ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Irrigation and fishing
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a. Supplying water to Egypt
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a. Water for the Sahel animals.
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Transportation of goods and people from the Nile to the Red Sea.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which BEST describes a major use of the Congo River? Irrigation of farmland.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Congo River is a long, arcing river with a basin that spans nine countries in West-Central Africa. This extensive body of water provides food, water, medicine and transport to about 75 million people in the surrounding basin, according to Yale University’s Global Forest Atlas.
Detailed explanation-3: -There are few irrigation projects of any size in the Congo Basin; given the high precipitation most agriculture is rain-fed. And most of the population practise subsistence farming.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Chambeshi River in Zambia is generally taken as the source of the Congo in line with the accepted practice worldwide of using the longest tributary, as with the Nile River.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Nile basin in DRC covers less than 1% of the area of the country. The area is hilly and does not really lend itself to irrigation. This area is rather densely populated with most people engaged in cattle rearing and fishery activities around Lake Albert.