1. Which statement below is an example of Physical Water Scarcity?

• The wealthy leaders of a small village in Bangladesh choose to supply water to big industry instead of local villages.
• A prominent leader in a developing country has placed a price on drinking water higher than the locals can afford.
• The community water well has ample water to supply twenty families.
• Alijah and her mother walk almost two miles every day just to get water for their daily needs.

2. Which statement below is an example of Economic Water Scarcity?

• Natural arsenic contaminates ground water making the water unsafe to drink.
• Women can get to the water source but it means walking through dangerous areas and risking physical assault.
• The local government chooses not to invest in repairing broken water lines.
• Water resources cannot meet the demands of the population.

3. Which statement below best describes sustainable development?

• Continually developing new technologies to solve problems
• Providing sufficient funding for a project so that it can continue to completion
• Meeting the needs of today without sacrificing the needs of future generations
• Ensuring that development will continue to go on, despite setbacks

4. Pertaining to water, population growth will have the greatest negative impact on areas that

• have fewer water resources
• are sparsely populated
• are further distances from ocean water sources
• have heavy rainfall

5. Which of the region descriptions below will most likely suffer from physical water scarcity? A region having:

• High annual rainfall and large population
• High annual rainfall and a small population
• Low annual rainfall and small population
• Low annual rainfall and large population

6. Negative impacts on natural resources such as water are the direct or indirect result of

• Phases of the moon
• Humans
• Natural catastrophes
• The water cycle

7. Describe two negative impacts of water scarcity.

8. Population growth has no effect on water resources in the world.

• True
• False

9. What percentage of the Earth’s water is fresh water?

• 5%
• 85%
• 3%
• 95%

10. What do developing country governments and big industry have in common with water pollution?

• Nothing - all governments have laws that restrict discharging waste water in water resources.
• Developing country governments are too small to deal with big industry so it is overlooked.
• Big industries have more control over water laws than the governments.
• Some governments in developing countries are more concerned with money from the big industries than with providing safe water to local people.