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"Identify the ways in which water is utilized at the regional scale" 
"Identify the ways in which water is utilized at the regional scale. Examine the environmental and human factors affecting patterns and trends in physical water scarcity and economic water scarcity"
"Examine the factors affecting access to safe drinking water"

Water Terminology 

Water case Study

Document full of water terminology to help understand the unit better. 

Video Critiques

Facts, causes, effects and possible solutions to water scarcity in Kenya. Click on the image above to find the document.

I found this video to be very interesting with many facts about water that I did not know about. Here are some of them:  

  • There are 366 quintillion gallons of water on earth 

  • Only 0.007% of that water is potable and 7 billion people to share it

  • The amount of ice on Kilimanjaro shrunk 85% in 100 years 

  • The Aral sea, Asia’s second largest lake is 1/10 of the size it was 50 years ago 

  • Groundwater depletion in Mexico city has made it sink 30 feet, causing 2 million people to not have piped water 

  • 1.2 billion people do not have access to clean water around the world

  • One cup of coffee takes 37 gallons of water to make

  • One burger takes 2,700 gallons of water to make

  • Water consumption has increased sixfold, due to increase in population 

  • More people have cellphones than taps in their houses 

  • The US consume 151 gallons (more per capita than Europe, which consumes 66 gallons per day, while Sub Saharan Africa consumes 5 gallons per day

     

Even though this video seemed like an advertisement for GE, a water and process technologies, I thought that the solutions for water scarcity and pollution were very interesting and new. I’m not sure how reliable this technology is but if it pulls through it will help the water crisis in which we are in.

-Water is needed for energy (40% of water usage for energy globally), agriculture (70%), industry (20%), daily life (10%)

-1/3 of the population are  at risk from water stress, in the year 2050 half of the population will be 

-GE technology 

-GE dustreat, water use for dust suppression on mining haul roads cut by 90%

-GE membrane, water treatment facilities reuse 100 million gallons of wastewater for irrigation daily

-GE EDT, raw water becomes quality drinking water 

-GE tech reuses 1 billion gallons of water daily

-Produces 1.7 billion gallons of potable water daily 

Water Facts

Various facts about water compiled by the class can be found by clicking on the picture above

Water Risk Map Description

The map above represents the levels of water risk around the world. Water risk is defined by the probability of a community experiencing harmful water events though indicators of physical quantity, quality and regulatory & repetitional risk categories. From the map, it can be seen that areas that have dark red, such as Northern Africa, parts of the middle east, and central Asia have an extremely high water risk probability (4-5), this may be due to the arid land that many of these areas have, meaning that they physically do not have enough water. Countries such as Russia, Canada and parts of Chile have a low water risk, which is contrary to the Chile’s neighbours, southern parts of Argentina, that have a high risk. Many of the countries/areas that have high or very high water risk are situated near or on the tropic of cancer and capricorn, showing how much of an impact climate change is having on those regions.

If you click on the map above, it will take  you to the website that has many other resources for the map, such as clicking on specific locations to see their main water source, the level of water risk it is at and details about what specific risk it has (physical, quality, quantity, or regulatory and repetitional) and the projected change for that region. 

Water Crisis Chapter

This document was created by the IB geography class of 2017 about the global water crisis. It talks about the causes, impacts and solutions to the crisis. My chapter was chapter 13, the way we live; the impact of the global water crisis on the way we live. Click on the image above to read the entire document.

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