The World Water Crisis

The World Water Crisis

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sanitation

• too many to count

• systems to take away sewage and keep water clean

• large areas of ice that move very slowly

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countless

• to not have (or not have enough of) something

• completely full of something (especially life and activity)

• too many to count

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to lack

• to not have (or not have enough of) something

• an illness that makes you pass waste from your body very often and in liquid, not solid, form

• completely full of something (especially life and activity

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glaciers

• large areas of ice that move very slowly

• really surprising, shocking

• systems to take away sewage and keep water clean

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teeming with

• completely full of something (especially life and activity)

• large areas of ice that move very slowly

• too many to count

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staggering

• really surprising, shocking

• to not have (or not have enough of) something

• completely full of something (especially life and activity)

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diarrhoea

• an illness that makes you pass waste from your body very often and in liquid, not solid, form

• completely full of something (especially life and activity)

• to not have (or not have enough of) something

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dehydration

• a condition that occurs when the body does not have enough water

• systems to take away sewage and keep water clean

• completely full of something (especially life and activity)

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All living things …

• are 60% water.

• contain water.

• need to drink.

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97% of the water on Earth is …

• frozen

• drinking water.

• salt water.

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One out of eight people …

• has to search for fresh water every day.

• has no toilet.

• dies from a lack of clean water.

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Many women have to …

• go days without water.

• find clean water.

• walk a long way to get polluted water.

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This time could be used …

• at school, work, or planting and building.

• looking after sick children.

• finding better water.

Choose the correct number

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The human body is up to __ % water.

• 60

• 70

• 97

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__ % of the Earth is covered with water.

• 70

• 60

• 3

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__% of the water on Earth is salt water.

• 60

• 70

• 97

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Only __% of the water on Earth is fresh water.

• 8

• 1

• 2

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There needs to be enough water for all __billion of us.

• 2

• 10

• 7

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One out of every __ people on Earth searches every day for fresh water.

• 1

• 2

• 8

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A human can only survive __days without water.

• 3

• 14

• 10