Causes
Give cause!
Because of this there is a continuously higher demand for water.
What is population increase?
Currently, 1 in 9 people do not have access to this resource.
What is clean, safe water?
Use these to reduce your personal water usage.
What are low-flush toilets and low-flow shower heads?
The water deficit results in the ___ of marine life although effects can remain invisible for a long time before showing up.
A jellyfish and a cucumber are each this percent water.
What is 95%?
State cause!
Droughts and water shortages happen in response to this, most well known by the rising of temperatures.
What is climate change?
This many people are killed by water, sanitation, and hygiene related diseases each year
What is 1 million?
Water your lawn or garden during ____.
What is the morning or afternoon?
Because of the growing population, global water demand is predicted to increase by how much by 2050.
What is 55%?
A person can live about a month without food, but only about this long without water.
What is one week?
Give Cause!
This results in water loss in soil and plants.
What is increased evaporation rates and/or plant transpiration?
This percent of the world’s wastewater is dumped (largely untreated) back into the environment, polluting rivers, lakes, and oceans.
What is 80%?
Collect excess used water and reuse it on things such as _____.
What is washing your car?
These in water along with lead and other contaminants sicken around 1 billion people a year.
What are waterborne pathogens, or diseases, viruses, and bacteria?
This percent of the world population lives in the driest half of the planet.
What is 85%?
Give cause!
Water is easier to pollute because of this.
What is water's ability to dissolve substances?
Out of how many of the biggest aquifers on the planet, this number have been found to have exceeded “tipping points”
Bonus: exceeding "tipping points" means this.
What is 37 and 21?
Bonus: What is they are losing more water than can be replaced naturally through rainfall and snow?
Corporations and factories should make sure they are doing this.
What is disposing of waste properly?
These social classes are often most affected by diseases and bacteria in water.
What is the low income/working class?
Water expands by 9% when it does this.
What is freezes?
Give Cause!
These lead to increased evaporation rates and plant transpiration, which results in water loss in soil and plants.
What are rising temperatures?
California’s Central Valley Aquifer System is considered this.
What is highly stressed?
Change these from 20 minutes to 5 minutes to use less water.
What are showers?
Water shortages will constrain the ability of farmers to expand this.
What is irrigated cropland?
An adult blue whale takes up to this many gallons of water into her mouth at one time while she is eating.
What is 10,000?