Environmental Affairs

Lesson 2: What everyone is or should be talking about: Water

Earth's Water

Non-ocean water is a very limited resource. Only 3% of Earth's water is available for human consumption but large portions are either inaccessible or due to pollution, unfit for human use

Non-ocean 3% (ground water, glaciers, inland seas, ice caps, other)

Oceans 97%

Explore the web-linking water pipe where you will get an excellent overview and information related to Earth’s water. Explore the dripping pipe at:

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/mearth.html

You should then proceed to explore patterns of water use, again by referring to a “dripping web-pipe”, at: http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/wateruse.ht...

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