Our Global Water Crisis, Explained
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Provided by: Our Changing Climate|Published on: April 27, 2021
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Synopsis
- This video is about the global freshwater crisis and its relationship to climate change, explaining its effects on California and the Amazon.
- Students learn about changes in the water cycle, droughts in California and the Amazon rainforest, statistics on water scarcity, and potential solutions to this crisis.
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, Geography
Authors: Our Changing Climate
Region: South and Central America, Global, California
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Preparation:
- Note that the content of the video ends at 8 minutes, 46 seconds and the remaining time is an outro.
Prerequisites:
- Ensure students are familiar with certain terms including aquifers, agroforestry, deforestation, groundwater, and transpiration.
Classroom Implementation:
- Have summarize the positive feedback loops mentioned in the video and brainstorm their own examples.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
- Civics:
- Students analyze the most appropriate solutions and create action steps for their local municipality.
Related Resources:
- Other resources related to these topics include Why It Matters: Water Scarcity, Poverty: Climate Change & Water Security, and Essentials of Environmental Science: The Water Cycle and Water Pollution.
- A lesson related to this resource is Drought Causes: Climate Change Impacts.
This 10-minute video presents issues related to water conservation and climate change, including California water management and drought, issues within the Amazon rainforest, and global water scarcity. Water scarcity and pollution is also discussed, and some solutions are presented. Citations are provided in small text on the bottom right corner of the screen, which need to be looked up from a list of resources linked in the video description. Although this takes additional effort to follow citations, this resource is recommended for teaching.
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