What do human beings

use fresh water for?

Do you think all people in the world have equal access

to fresh water?If not, why not?

From the map…• Which countries have…

Few problems with water scarcity?Physical water scarcity?Approaching physical water scarcity?Economic water scarcity?

Do you think there might be some areas that have not been estimated on your maps, which still suffer from physical water scarcity?

These facts are from the world water council:

• Quantity of water needed to produce 1kg of: • Wheat: 1,000L• Rice: 1,400L• Beef: 13,000L

• Daily per capita use of water in residential areas:• 350 litres in N. America and Japan• 200 litres in Europe• 20 litres in sub-Saharan Africa (or less)

• 1.1 billion people live without clean drinking water• 2.6 billion people lack adequate sanitation• 1.8 million people die every year from diarrhoeal diseases• 3900 children die every day from waterborne diseases

• The demand for water has grown extremely quickly in the last 100 years.

• Individually come up with 3 reasons for why you think this is…