WATER USE, MANAGEMENT AND POLLUTION



WATER USE, MANAGEMENT AND POLLUTION

1. Summarize how the hydrologic cycle delivers fresh water to terrestrial ecosystems.

2. What are the 3 main sector (ways) of water use by humans?

3. What is the difference in:

Withdrawal

Consumption

Degradation

4. Discuss China’s South to North Water Diversion Project

5. What are the 3 major Water Compartments on Earth (provide %)?

6. What is fresh water and where is it found and stored.

7. What are aquifers and what is the current status of water in them?

8. Why and where is water use increasing in the world?

9. What was water from the Aral Sea used for and what is the current status?

10. Compare and contrast the 3 forms of irrigation…

flood an furrow

sprinklers

drip

11. List the three main uses of water in the American household in descending order?

12. Discuss the contrasting arguments of water use in the Klamath River. How is it a War?

13. What declaration was made in 1977 at the UN Water Conference?

14. What is a subsidence and a sinkhole?

15. Discuss the benefits and detriments of the two ways of increasing water supply.

16. Should we remove Dams? Explain.

17. Discuss watershed management.

18. Define Water Pollution

19. Describe the sources and effects of some major types.

20. What is principally responsible for the Dead Zone in the Gulf Coast of Louisana?

21. What is the source of the pathogenic organisms that pollute waterways?

22. What are the coliform bacteria?

23. What life forms can be supported in water with an oxygen content of >6 ppm verses one with ................
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