Ben Ding

Barton
World Lit
3/31/17
Annotated Bibliography

"World Bank Water Home." The World Bank Working for a World Free of Poverty. The
World Bank, n.d. Web. 07 Apr. 2017.

Summary
The World Bank, a group of countries and organizations, have compiled a list of issues
relating to water scarcity. They list the context, strategy and results of efforts, along with future
planned projects and related news articles. All writings are objective and focus on stating the
facts.

Strengths
Due to the organization's vast array of resources, the World Bank boasts a vast and
extensive database that focuses on poverty related issues, including water scarcity. Data
presented by the World Bank is clean and supported. Moreover, the analysis provided by the
world bank accurately describes the issues and relating topics. Not only does it state the facts,
but it also illustrates how the World Bank is moving to counteract the issue, listing the projects
and programs organized by the World Bank.

Weaknesses
While the article does explain in detail how developing countries are affected, it does
little to asses how the economy of both affected and supporting countries. Furthermore, the site
fails to give credit to contributors besides the third party blogs and research data.

Relevancy
The source clearly covers most aspects of water scarcity in developing countries, but the
real credit lies in the data as it shows how certain statistics like water supply and artificial water
supplies are changing over the years. This allows for students to cite the data as a primary
source, rather than cite changes from secondary sources. Furthermore, it includes data from
varying countries allowing for multiple points of view.