Sa+Bai+Di+(Laos)

Dong Bum Kim Jeong Il Kang Seong Rae Roh Hyun Lee

Capital city: Vientiane Official languages:Lao Area: 236800km² Population:6,834,942 (July 2009 est.)

Laos citizens transporting water

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 * Main Information of Laos**

Laos is a country, which is located in the Southern East Asia. This country is surrounded with many different types of countries and cultures. Moreover, as you can find the location of the Laos, it is a landlocked type of country, which does not have any access to the sea. Also, there are lots of mountainous places than just a simple plain. Fortuneately, there aren't that much water related problems in Laos, because there are a Mekong River access through the border between Thailand and Laos. However, there are lots of food related problems caused, when there are dry season, because it is very hard to get supplies of foods from other countries.

Per capita income (2008 est.): $765. GDP (2008 est.): $5.2 billion GDP growth rate (2009 est.): 4.5%
 * GDP**

Life expectancy at birth: 56.68 years Infant mortality rate: 77.82 death/ 1000 lives births
 * Humans' Life**

50% of children in Laos die by malnutrition, malnutrition is a type of sickness, which occurs when there aren't enough food to access. In other word there are lots of children having a problem with a symptoms from malnutrition, for instance, children could drop out from the school. In Attappeu, there are 17,000 people suffering from the food shortage, and the 50% of children is suffering with the malnutrition.
 * Food problem in the Laos**

Water problem in the Laos Currently, Laos is preparing a development plan, which depends on the water sources. Therefore, there are large amount of water is affected by the industrial development and urbanization in which creates some serious polluting problems. According to some articles, there are lots of polluted water discharged from urban areas, which creates some problems, such as land erosion. The most serious problem is that perhaps people are accessing to these polluted water. Therefore, there must be a effective solution to solve this problem.

Environmental Problem There are 2 main environmental problems in the Laos, which are deforestation and some other effects of Natural disasters. Currently, there were some huge natural disasters took action in the northern part of Lao PDR. Also, this kind of disasters have affected a lot in citizens life.

Therefore, our groups will focus on a big topic community in which is Lao PDR. Also, during this project, our group would focus and find information about the food and water problems that are caused in Laos. In addition, some of our group members would deal with some serious environmental problems, such as a big flood in Northern area of the Laos, and some other big natrual diseases.**
 * Our group will trying to focus on a certain community in the Laos, but there aren't large variety of choices to choose.

By: Dong Bum Kim Jeong IL Knag Seong Rae Roh Hyun Lee