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A social impact of water scarcity that affects communities
What is lack of access to clean drinking water?
This type of water source comes from underground and is stored in aquifers
What is Groundwater?
The process by which water changes from liquid to gas and rises into the atmosphere
What is evaporation?
The term for when there is not enough clean water for people’s needs
What is Water Scarcity?
The main use of freshwater worldwide
What is agriculture?
An environmental impact of water pollution on marine life.
What is habitat destruction?
Large bodies of saltwater that cover about 71% of Earth's surface
What are oceans?
The stage where water vapor cools and forms clouds.
What is condensation?
A country experiencing frequent droughts and has major water supply concerns
Australia
The average number of liters of water used per person per day in Australia
What is 100-300 litres?
An economic impact of droughts on farmers.
What is crop failure and loss of income?
This type of water is stored in lakes, rivers, and reservoirs
What is surface water?
When water falls back to Earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
A common method of conserving water in agriculture by reducing evaporation
What is drip-irrigation?
The main type of water on Earth
Ocean
A social impact of building large dams for water storage.
What is displacement of communities?
A major Australian river system that supplies water to many communities
What is the Murray-Darling Basin?
The process where water moves through the soil and into underground storage.
What is infiltration?
The process of removing salt from seawater to make it drinkable
What is desalination?
The dryest continent in the world.
What is Australia?
An impact of flooding on people, places and environment?
Loss of life, property and destruction of natural habitat
These massive frozen stores of freshwater are melting due to climate change
What are glaciers?
The term for water moving across the surface of the Earth into rivers and lakes.
What is run-off?
The name given to the Murray Darling Basin?
What is the Australian Food Bowl?
The city mentioned in our case study about drought?
What is Orange?