1. WATER

2. FRESHWATER - relatively pure with few dissolved salts
Lakes - Largest (by volume) Baikal in Russia
Rivers - Amazon in South America
Streams
Groundwater (aquifers) - maybe Ogallala in U.S.
may be Great Artesian Basin in Australia
Glaciers - Lambert in Antarctica
Rainwater
Soil
Atmosphere

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SELF INVENTORY
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Answer all questions to best of your ability. At the beginning of each section, view tips.
Make a data table for your home, diet, transportation, stuff and total compared to national average.
Graph data.
Click on each heading and manipulate the sliding scales. to see how changes affect your total water uses.

4. Calculate the percentage of your water uses compared to the national average (national - yours)/national *100. Positive answers means you are below the national average.
Discuss any categories in which you exceed the national average.
Discuss three things you could change that would result in the most reduction of your water usage

5. Virtual tour

6. FRESHWATER
Importance
Distribution
Ecosystems
Uses
Supply
Depletion

7. Damming the Colorado River
Over 100 dams to control floods, provide hydroelectricity, diverted for agricultural and municipal water
Result: River is drained before it reaches the Sea of Cortez. What impact could this have on climate, population growth, species extinction

9. Close to home: RESEARCH
State of Oklahoma vs. Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes.
Arkansas vs. Oklahoma
Water Quality of Illinois River
Tarrant County, TX vs. State of Oklahoma
2001: Lawton might sell water rights to Tarrant County, TX

11. Research Levees on the Mississippi (in particular New Orleans)
Prevents flooding. Deprives farmland of nutrients.

13. Consumptive use - water removed from an aquifer or surface body and not returned (mostly ag, industry & residential)
Nonconsumptive use - water removed is only temporary (power generating plants)

14. 2nd highest usage in U.S.
Compare to India

15. Know this example. Causes and Effects
Aral Sea
Freshwater Depletion
Know this example. Causes and Effects

16. Highest usage in U.S.
Compare to India