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Look
at www.bbc.co.uk/education/landmarks/high/wetlands/index.html
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includes both an interactive and a printable version of the water
cycle and the concept of a water table. |
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What
human activities get in the way of the water table? Talk about some of
them e.g. damming rivers, water extraction, industrial pollution (either
through using rivers as a dump or through acid rain), river silting caused
by tree felling…
Draw a diagram showing the 'ideal' water cycle. Then draw another diagram
showing the various points where human activities threaten the way this
cycle functions.
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Look
at http://www.epa.gov/OW/
the part of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's web
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Find as many intriguing facts as possible and use them as the basis of a
'water awareness' publicity campaign. What would the campaign be about?
Many campaigns are designed to sell something, or as warnings. This one
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Write
the autobiography of a water drop. There is no beginning to the water
cycle, so where do you start? Perhaps in a cloud far out above the oceans,
then the wind drives the cloud to land, there is a storm as the cloud
crashes into a mountain, thunder and lightning the fear of being thrown
down to earth…
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Write
a riddle with the solution 'WATER'. There is one such riddle in the Anglo-Saxon
Exeter Book Riddles*
I watched a creature going on its way;
Its clothes were fine as they were curious.
On the way a miracle: water became bone.
(Riddle 68/9)
The final line is, of course, about ice. You can play with the ideas of
the metamorphosis of water (liquid, ice, steam), but try to include something
about the water cycle and to the disruptions that modern life makes to
it.
*Published by Penguin, translated by Kevin Crossley-Holland
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Water
causes conflict. In the Israeli/Palestinian dispute, one of the most intractable
- and under-reported - issues is about water rights. The Palestinians
argue that 'their' water is being stolen.
How much do you know about this dispute? How far will the argument/conflict
between Israel and Palestine be followed by many others around the world
as resources dwindle? It's a subject people feel impassioned about - after
all, they feel their life may depend on it.
For
information to help you debate see, for example:
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/08092000/0010017.html
(a magazine report)
http://www.salam.org/palestine/water.html
(a very detailed review of the history of the Palestinian/Israeli water
dispute).
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