Water Scarcity Vocab

To have a short supply of something

• Renewable Resource

• Climate

• Scarcity

• Agriculture

This happens when farming/ arable land dries up and becomes a desert

• Renewable Resource

• Climate

• Desertification

• Physical Water Scarcity

There is not enough money to create the infrastructure/piping systems needed to get water

• Economic Water Scarcity

• Physical Water Scarcity

• Irrigation

• Renewable Resource

A disease that infects your intestines and is caused by contaminated food or water

• Cholera

• Scarcity

• Desertification

• Hydroelectricity

There is not enough water to meet the needs of the people

• Potable Water

• Scarcity

• Desertification

• Physical Water Scarcity

Water Movement to reach a place

• Potable Water

• Scarcity

• Flow

• Physical Water Scarcity

A resource that Earth or people can replace

• Scarcity

• Renewable Resource

• Cholera

• Natural Resource

Electricity made by water

• Economic Water Scarcity

• Scarcity

• Irrigation

• Hydroelectricity

How people affect their environment and how the environment affects them

• Hydroelectricity

• Flow

• Human Environment Interaction

• Scarcity

A useful material found in the enviornment

• Cholera

• Natural Resource

• Climate

• Economic Water Scarcity