Terminology
The use of a resource at a rate that does not impact future generations.
What is sustainability?
This disrupts rainfall patterns, making scarcity worse.
What is Global Warming?
Places of no economic use to people or agriculture.
What is an economic desert?
These structures are used to store water for irrigation and drinking.
What are dams?
This country has access to 8% of the world's freshwater but must support 22% of the world's population.
The category of water that is naturally occurring which does not include saltwater or brackish water.
What is freshwater?
The structures and systems in place to treat and transport water that is in bad condition.
What is poor water infrastructure?
The conflict between countries based off on access to water.
What are water wars?
This is a strategy that uses contaminated water and purifies it for human use.
What is waste water recyling?
By this year, 1 out of 4 people will most likely live in a country impacted by water scarcity.
When is 2050?
The process that removes mineral components from saline water.
What is desalination?
The unsupported increase of the amount of humans on Earth.
What is unsupported human population growth?
A bacterial disease usually spreads in water that causes severe diarrhea and dehydration.
What is chlorea?
The pinpoint monitoring system of pipelines that give water to a home.
What is leak monitoring?
This UN sustainable goal focuses on water and sanitation.
What is goal number 6?
This is the term for a country that is still relatively poor without much industrialization.
What is a LEDC?
The contamination of water.
What is water pollution?
The lack of production of food sufficent enough to feed a population.
What are food shortages?
A hygiene strategy that does not require water.
What is waterless showering?
Over 90% of these are water related.
What are natural disasters?
The explotation of the underground layer of water permable rock.
What is the overuse of aquifiers?
The lack of water for hydrothermic engery plants create this issue.
What is an energy shortage?
The altercation of human consumption of water through the curriculum.
What is water conservation education?
The list of sources used in a project.
What is a works cited?
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