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 * Name- Hailemariam Desalegn **
 * Country- Serving the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia **
 * Occupations: Head of Ethiopia **


 * Geography: **
 * Ethiopia borders the countries of Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, and Sudan. Its location is Eastern Africa. The total amount of land Ethiopia withholds is 5,328 km, which is slightly less than 2 times the size of Texas. The terrain is very high plateau and central mountain ranges. Ethiopia is landlocked because of the entire coast of the Red Sea was lost. Due to the location of Ethiopia, natural hazards include deforestation, overgrazing, soil erosion, desertification, and most importantly water shortages. **


 * Population: **
 * The total population contained in Ethiopia is 73,053,286 with population growth of 2.36%. **


 * Economy: **
 * Economy is based all upon agriculture, for 80% of total employment, 60% of exports, and for half of GDP total. The second most critical export is coffee making 156 million dollars. Droughts in Ethiopia have declined the GDP by 2% in 2002 effecting the country. **


 * Social Structure: **
 * The social structure of Ethiopia contains a number of ethnic groups such as Oromo as the highest followed by Amhara and Tigre, Sidamo, Shankella, Somali, Afar, and Gurage. Ethiopia also has three main religions taught such as Muslim, Ethiopian Orthodox, and animist. **


 * Background Information: **
 * I was born in 1965 in the southern part of Ethiopia and spent most of my time as a child at in the Boloso Sore district.In 1988, I recieved my bacholers degree for civil engineering to work as a graduate assistant in the Arba Minch Water Technology Institute. With my return to Ethiopia I served in academic and administrative capacities such as the Water Technology institute. Also, I earned a MA for Organizational leadership at Azusa Pacific University. **


 * Global References: **
 * Our supportives are the United Nations, Ethiopia Humanitarian Aid, and the human rights watch. There goal, like all of us is to end suffering and poverty by helping the people of Ethiopia by giving them clean drinking water. The Ethiopia Humanitarian aid is currently helping on the issue of the diseases in food which is carried by the water in the soil infecting the crops and animals. How we are going to resolve this issue is by preserving and recovering range land, increasing access to veterinary services, and improve nutritional practices. The human rights watch has provided us financially by helping out all countries of Africa including Ethiopia and the U.N. has helped fund a central help emergency response. We all want to seek the end to water diseases causing illness, death, and malnutrition. **

__Benchmarks __
 * 1. Safety and rule of law **
 * Ethiopia ranking 38th overall for safety and rule of law is very disturbing and is the reason why we are in desperate need for desperate help. Our country has limited resources for clean water and streams. This leads to people living in hazardous living conditions. Many different diseases can be contracted such as such as cholera and diarrhea. **


 * 2.Participation and Human Rights **
 * Lacking the participation and human rights, we should focus on safety matters so that we can establish human rights for everyone. The waterborne crisis is a big issue and is causing our country to have wars with other countries because of the lack of water recourse which leads to our rights being withheld. **


 * 3.Sustainable Economic Opportunity **
 * Even though our economic opportunity is not severely as bad as others, we are vulnerable to having our economy plummet. The reason is the main way Ethiopia has a growing rate of GDP is because of agriculture. When there is the a water crisis the economy for Ethiopia turns for the worst and farms are losing their crops. **


 * 4. Human Development **
 * With the widespread amount of people contracting waterborne diseases this may cause war outbreaks for a clean water source. This may also go for the positive and make peace with other countries to share access to clean water in exchange for our exports. **

** Works cited ** **"Ethiopia." Global Issues in Context Online Collection. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Global Issues In Context. Web. 1 Mar. ** **2013. ** **"Ethiopia." Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. Ed. Timothy L. Gall and Susan Bevan Gall. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2012. Global Issues In Context. Web. 1 Mar. 2013. ** **Lerner, Adrienne. "Surface and Groundwater Rights." U*X*L Encyclopedia of Water Science. Ed. K. Lerner, Brenda Lerner, and Lawrence Baker. Vol. 3. Detroit: U*X*L, 2005. 498-501. Global Issues In Context. Web. 1 Mar. 2013. **