UNIT 2

A Watery World

Water consumption and sources

Specification Details

5.1a The differences in water consumption between low-income countries (LICs) and high-income countries (HICs) and the differences between domestic, agriculture and industry usage.

World Mapper : By Water usage

Water Consumption

Region Water Used Daily Per Person

USA 600 litres

Europe 300 litres

UN recommended minimum 50 litres

Sub-Saharan Africa 25 litres

Present the following data on a bar graph

Africa – 85% Agriculture; 8% Domestic; 7% IndustrialEurope – 54% Industry; 33% Agriculture; 13% DomesticUSA – 45% Industry; 41% Agriculture; 14% Domestic

There is a huge difference in the water use between HICs (High Income Countries) and LICs (Low Income Countries)

Using this information….

The data needs to be shown graphically

Use the data to create a percentage bar for each of the continents.

100%

8%85%

7%

So if the line is 10cm long – how long will agriculture be?

Finding and collecting water in Africa

Water in Africa: Here

Water Usage

Put these three headings into spider diagrams

Around them put as many uses as you can think for

DomesticAgricultureIndustrial

Task

Glue the following slide in your book. It will highlight some of the reasons for this difference in water consumption.

Do you think this is fair?

How has it become unfair?

How can this become more fairer?

What do these images represent?

Homework

Over the weekend – so for Saturday and Sunday

Try to calculate how much water YOU use

CONNECTIONS : P193

BBC water calculator : here

For everything else, use a very rough estimation

Lets see who uses the most.