Population Growth/ Development of countries/ Agricultural Use/ Industry Use/ Domestic and Leisure Use
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Is population growth causing water supply or demand issues?
Demand
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Is climate causing water supply or demand issues?
Supply
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Does geology create water supply or demand issues?
Supply
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Is economic development causing water supply or demand issues?
Demand
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Identify two ways the coca cola plant in India caused a water deficit for the region.
1. Polluted local supplies with chemicals from the bottling factory. 2. Overuse of water/ over abstraction of local water sources.
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Explain the impacts of water insecurity on increasing disease.
People forced to drink dirty water.
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Explain the impacts of water insecurity on increasing conflict.
People will fight over water in wells/ water is needed for survival and people willing to kill/ fight to get it when it is scarce.
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Explain the impacts of water insecurity on decreased industrial output.
Factory processes require large water quantities so with less water less factories can perform.
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Explain the impacts of water insecurity on decreased food production.
Less water to irrigate crops so less food produced. Can rise the cost of food and at worse cause famine.
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Name large scale water management strategies.
Dams & reservoirs / desalination plants / water transfer schemes.
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Name our large scale water transfer case study example.
China's South-North water transfer (SNWTP)
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Name small scale water management strategies.
Water recycling & grey water systems / drip irrigation techniques / water saving kits / gravity fed water pumps
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Name our main case study of a small scale, local water management scheme
Gravity Fed Water Pump, Ethiopia
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Name a positive of large scale water management strategies.
Amount of water stored can be used for industrial and agricultural demand that supports the country making money.
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Name a negative of large scale water management strategies.
Huge numbers of people had to be displaced to build and provide an area to flood for the reservoir.
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Name a positive of small scale water management strategies.
The project can be managed by local people and is directly supporting local people meaning more time to go out to work and cleaner water for the villages.
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Name a negative of small scale water management strategies.
Materials are provided by NGOs which may be hard to replace if they break in the future.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Is population growth causing water supply or demand issues?
Back
Demand
Card 3
Front
Is climate causing water supply or demand issues?
Back
Card 4
Front
Does geology create water supply or demand issues?
Back
Card 5
Front
Is economic development causing water supply or demand issues?
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