The Water Crisis

LO: To understand causes, effects and some solutions to the water crisis.

Ways in which we use water

LO: To understand causes, effects and some solutions to the water crisis.

Out of all the water in the

world how much is available for us

to use?

The water you drink today has most likely been around in one form or another since dinosaurs roamed the Earth, hundreds of millions of years ago.

Water stress results from an imbalance

between water use and water resources.

Which areas have enough water?Which areas have too little water?

LO: To understand causes, effects and some solutions to the water crisis.

Causes of the Water Crisis

Who is to blame? Video: Water in the Anthropocene

7 Causes Quiz – As we go through each cause make a brief point about it in the table.

LO: To understand causes, effects and some solutions to the water crisis.

"There is a water crisis today. But the crisis is not about having too

little water to satisfy our needs. It is a crisis of managing water so badly

that billions of people - and the environment - suffer badly." World

Water Vision Report

What does this mean?

LO: To understand causes, effects and some solutions to the water crisis.

Calculate your water use

Are you careful or wasteful with your water use?

What are the Problems?

• Watch this video (0 - 4.40) and make a note of the problems caused by water scarcity.

What can we do?

• Become responsible over water use in MEDCs:

Responsible water use

• Help to provide safe, reliable water to people in LEDCs:Play Pump South Africa

1. You are on your way home from school when you see this headline in a newspaper. Go back to your spider diagram and using a different colour annotate it with ways in which you could conserve water for each of your uses.

2. Compose a song or rap about the water crisis and be ready to present it to the group!

“U.K. government to ban all non-

essential use of water for at least a year”

Can of worms

Choose a worm from the can and talk for 30 seconds on the word/statement you have chosen!