For example, the fields of Western farmers feed the United States and many other parts of the world, and India's irrigation systems have enabled that country to be self-sufficient in food production since 1974. In addition, in many parts of the world dams have helped to remedy life-threatening problems such as poverty from lack of economic development, famine as a result of drought, devastation from floods, and continued disease from lack of potable water supplies.
Poverty from lack of economic development is a life-threatening problem.
( z1 problem :ARG0-of ( z2 threaten :ARG1 ( z3 life ) ) :domain ( z4 poor :ARG1-of ( z5 cause :ARG0 ( z6 lack :ARG1 ( z7 develop :ARG1 ( z8 economy ) ) ) ) ) )