WATER QUALITY AND PURITY
1. Not being able to get clean drinking water is a big problem in many places. What are some ways we can help people get clean drinking water?
2. Where does the biggest city in your country get its clean water from?
3. The world’s population is increasing rapidly. Getting clean water for everyone might become difficult in the future. Think of three ways we can avoid this problem.
4. How long can a person live without drinking any water? How long have you gone without drinking anything?
1. COLLECTING WATER: How can we get water from these things? Complete this table with your partner(s).
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How?
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Could this happen?
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Sea
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Garbage
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Trees / plants
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Space
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Ice bergs
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Sewage
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2. SAVE WATER: Rank these with your partner. Put the best ideas to save water at the top. Share your rankings.
- make it more expensive
- take fewer baths
- daily limits
- turn it off for 12 hours
- education
- no water for gardens
- social media campaign
- limit car washing
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3. DESERT: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word "desert". Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories.