Water Scarcity Vocabulary

To have a short supply of something

• Irrigation

• Potable Water

• Scarcity

• Cholera

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

• Physical Water Scarcity

• Cholera

• Economic Water Scarcity

• Flow

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

• Renewable Resource

• Human Environment Interaction

• Desertification

• Economic Water Scarcity

A resource that Earth or people can replace

• Potable Water

• Renewable Resource

• Agriculture

• Climate

How people affect their environment and how their environment affects them

• Natural Resource

• Flow

• Irrigation

• Human Environment Interaction

Average weather of a place over many years (i.e. Tropical, Arid, Polar, etc.)

• Scarcity

• Human Environment Interaction

• Climate

• Desertification

To supply water to an area

• Irrigation

• Flow

• Potable Water

• Economic Water Scarcity

Drinking water that is safe/clean

• Cholera

• Desertification

• Potable Water

• Physical Water Scarcity

The growing of plants and raising of animals

• Hydroelectricity

• Agriculture

• Flow

• Scarcity

A useful material found in the environment

• Human Environment Interaction

• Climate

• Irrigation

• Natural Resource