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12: Water Availability and Use

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Learning Outcomes

  • Understand how the water cycle operates
  • Know the causes and effects of depletion in different water reservoirs
  • Understand how we can work toward solving the water supply crisis
  • Understand the major kinds of water pollutants and how they degrade water quality
  • Understand how we can work toward solving the crisis involving water pollution

Thumbnail image - Great Lakes from Space. The Great Lakes hold 21% of the world’s surface fresh water. Lakes are an important surface water resource.


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