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Chapter 4 Water Supply
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Fresh Water > 2% locked in ice caps and under ground
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The hydrological cycle
What is it? Why is it important? It renews fresh water so that it can be used again and again surface runoff
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Difference between surface runoff and infiltration
- rain water absorbs by the ground/surface surface runoff - can form ground water - water can no longer be absorbed by the ground - water flows across a surface
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Infiltration or surface runoff?
How to annotate a photograph
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A flood Title Location? at a road side, in a city
What are the effects of the flood? road congestion businesses will be affected What is the water level as measured by your observations? What other observations? It is raining heavily lots of dead leaves floating ankle deep on the foreground Up to the car’s bumper in the background
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Uses Of Water
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Uses of water consumption households hygiene amenity farming factories
Domestic Economic agricultural Industrial hygiene amenity farming see page 126 factories see page 127
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Obvious water usage at home
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Hidden water 7 000 litres of water ?
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The uses of water with reference to graphs.
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Is the data reliable? Is the data useful?
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How to calculate water footprint of a country?
Total population divided by Total amount of water used to produce goods and services for a person
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!Kung Bushmen vs Singaporean Boy
Who has a higher water footprint? Why?
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