Water Usage and Management

Often water must be treated to become _______, safe to drink

• pathogen

• potable

• clarified

• bonifide

Which of the following is NOT a residential use of water>

• cooking and drinking

• washing dishes and clothes

• washing cars and watering the lawn

• watering the crops

• showers and toilets

What is the best way to CONSERVE water use in an agricultural setting...

• low flow toilets

• reuse cooling water

• drip irrigation

• high power overhead irrigation

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Conserving water for residential use would involve

• xeriscaping

• drip irrigation

• reusing cooling water

• manufacturing goods

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The image here is how humans control rivers for the last few hundred years. This is

• diverting water thru canels

• create an aquaduct

• damming a river

• desalination plant

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Which of the following is a disadvantage of dams and reservoirs?

• man made lakes used for drinking water, recreation and industry

• hydroelectric power

• existing ecosystems changed, displacing species and humans

• flood control

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