Section 1
What is the biggest importing region?
What is the European Union?
Today ____ths of the wetlands have been lost. (4/5ths, 1/2, 2/3rds, 1/9th)
What is: 4/5ths
The Inner Niger Delta is the smallest floodplain in West Africa (True or False)
What is False?
What is considered the unnoticed poisoner of the world's farmland?
On average, how much water do we drink every day?
What is a gallon and a half?
When the Maga Dam was built, fish yields fell by what percent? (35%, 55%, 10% or 90%)
What is 90%?
What is the use of the hydroelectric dam in China?
to generate year-round power?
What is 97%?
True or False: At present, human societies globally consume an estimated 8.7 billion acre-feet of water every year from rivers and underground aquifers.
What is true?
The shortage of water and lack of jobs led to the formation of what?
The people of Senegal are migrating to?
Where is Europe?
How deep do you have to go to find fossil water that is considered nonrenewable? (1050 ft, 650 ft, 320 ft)
What is 650 ft?
"______ of all the water that humans take from nature is used for agriculture?" (1/2, 3/4, 2/3, 1/8)
What is 2/3rds?
As said in the chapter, the only sensible use for the existing dams is to....?
Re-create the natural flood
Less water leads to fewer...? (name at least one)
Forests, fisheries and grasses
What is a reservoir of underground water?
What is an aquifer?
Who are the biggest net exporters of virtual water?
What is the United States?
What two dams destroyed a natural bounty? (The Tiga and Challawa Gorge Dam, or the Kafin Zaki Dam and the Maga Dam)
What are the Tiga and the Challawa Gorge Dam
The Macina Liberation movement began launching attacks on what group of people in the delta?
What are the farmers?
The greater part of fresh water is found in?
What are 'the pores of rocks?