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 * India**

Primary Documents-

[] - This document is a speech made by Jairam Ramesh, Minister of Environment and Forests about their plans for the future of adjusting to climate change.

[] - this is a speech made by Shri Sharad Pawar, Union Minister for Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food ,Public Distribution. In this speech he adressed the problem of water scarcity and how he plans to make this a issue no longer.

Artifact One The map shows the countries in this region that are highly affected by droughts and countries that are not. This map is important because it shows that India is one of the only countries that are severely affected by a drought.

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Artifact Two

  The chart above shows the amount of people affected by sme of previous droughts in India. India has 4 of the top 10 highest amount of people affected by a drought. According to the latest drought that had a major impact in 2002, 300,000,000 people were affected which is a substantially large amount of people. []
 * ~ **Disaster** ||~ **Date** ||~ **Affected** ||~ **(no. of people)** ||
 * India || 2002 || 300,000,000 || [[image:http://www.preventionweb.net/images/bg_data.gif width="1" height="7"]] ||
 * India || 1987 || 300,000,000 || [[image:http://www.preventionweb.net/images/bg_data.gif width="1" height="7"]] ||
 * India || 1982 || 100,000,000 || [[image:http://www.preventionweb.net/images/bg_data.gif width="1" height="7"]] ||
 * China P Rep || 1994 || 82,000,000 || [[image:http://www.preventionweb.net/images/bg_data.gif width="1" height="7"]] ||
 * China P Rep || 2002 || 60,000,000 || [[image:http://www.preventionweb.net/images/bg_data.gif width="1" height="7"]] ||
 * India || 2000 || 50,000,000 || [[image:http://www.preventionweb.net/images/bg_data.gif width="1" height="7"]] ||
 * China P Rep || 1988 || 49,000,000 || [[image:http://www.preventionweb.net/images/bg_data.gif width="1" height="7"]] ||
 * China P Rep || 2003 || 48,000,000 || [[image:http://www.preventionweb.net/images/bg_data.gif width="1" height="7"]] ||
 * Iran Islam Rep || 1999 || 37,000,000 || [[image:http://www.preventionweb.net/images/bg_data.gif width="1" height="7"]] ||
 * Kenya || 1999 || 23,000,000 || [[image:http://www.preventionweb.net/images/bg_data.gif width="1" height="7"]] ||

Artifact Three This graph shows the rainfall dating all the way back to 1870-2010. The rainfall in Inia is either leads to a drought, flood, or normal amounts. The drought and flood happen just as much if not more than the normal amount of rainfall. This is bad for India because this will either give them underwatered crops or overwatered crops which will kill them and gives them a lack of food.

http://www.tropmet.res.in/~kolli/mol/Monsoon/Historical/air.html