Y9 - RM - Lesson 3: Increasing Supply

Match the following key words together from the last two lessons...

• Water availability is insufficient to ensure good health and livelihood.

• Water security

• When demand for water is greater than supply.

• Water insecurity

• Availability of a reliable source of acceptable quality and  quantity of water

• Water deficit

• Majority of available water is used. 80% use = high stress.

• Water surplus

• When water supply is greater than demand

• Water stress

Which of these IS NOT an reason for water insecurity.

• Pollution

• Conflict

• Agricultural use

• Swimming

The Ganges river runs through India and ...

• Pakistan

• Bangladesh

• China

• Sri Lanka

An industry that caused major water pollution on the Ganges was...

• Leather industry

• Cotton Industry

• Corn farming

• Bread making

Which of these issues were problems that make cleaning the Ganges harder.

• Lack of sanitation infrastructure

• Rapid urban growth

• Corruption

• All of these

Which of these was a true fact about waterborne diseases.

• 80% of reported cases of Bilharzia get treated.

• Cholera is caused by a parasitic snail

• Dysentery killed 1.26 million people in 2013

• An estimated 3.4 million people die a year due to water related illnesses

What natural disaster impacted US food production in 2006 and 2012?

• Tropical storms

• Drought

• Wildfire

• Tornadoes

Of all water used by humans around the world how much of it is eventually used in agriculture?

• 10%

• 30%

• 50%

• 70%

The US accounts for what percentage of the world's corn, maize and wheat...

• 10%

• 30%

• 50%

• 70%

How much of China's available water is being used for industry?

• 10%

• 33%

• 50%

• 66%