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Our Global Water Crisis, Explained

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: Biology, Earth and Space Sciences, Geography

Authors: Our Changing Climate

Region: North America, South and Central America, USA - West, United States, Global, California

Languages: English

Positives

It offers many solutions including improved irrigation, cover cropping, agroforestry, pollution regulations, and water recycling.
It is divided into eight timestamped chapters that are linked in the description.

Additional Prerequisites

The content of the video ends at 8 minutes, 46 seconds and the remaining time is an outro.
Students should be familiar with certain terms including aquifers, agroforestry, deforestation, groundwater, and transpiration.

Differentiation

In a science class, students can summarize the positive feedback loops mentioned in the video and brainstorm their own examples.
Cross-curricular connections can be made with a civics course by having students analyze the most appropriate solutions and create action steps for their local municipality.
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.

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