The removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming.

• Desalination

• Groundwater

• Industrial Waste

• Dams

The legal right to use water from a river, stream, or other body for a purpose.

• Water Rights

• Desalination

• Industrial Waste

• Dams

The water that is beneath Earth's surface.

• Desalination

• Groundwater

• Industrial Waste

• Dams

Waste from production of consumer goods, mining, agriculture and petroleum extraction and refining.

• Desalination

• Groundwater

• Industrial Waste

• Dams

A barrier constructed to hold back water and raise its level, the resulting reservoir being used in the generation of electricity or as a water supply.

• Desalination

• Groundwater

• Industrial Waste

• Dams

Small groups of nomadic people in Arabia.

• Bedoins

• Oasis

• Scarcity

• Dams

Limited quantities of resources to meet unlimited wants.

• Bedoins

• Oasis

• Scarcity

• Dams

Electricity made by water power.

• Hydroelectricy

• Pollution

• Water Pollution

• Dams

Water from farm fields due to irrigation or rain that flows over the earth and is absorbed into the ground or flows into bodies of water. Also can contain pesticides and herbicides.

• Hydroelectricy

• Agricultural Runoff

• Water Pollution

• Dams

The contamination of streams, rivers, lakes, oceans, or groundwater with substances produced through human activities.

• Hydroelectricy

• Water Rights

• Water Pollution

• Dams