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Teacher Resource

Making a splash! – T5.2

The following websites may be useful to provide information about the uses of water for making
various products:

The Water footprint calculator website includes recommendations on how to save water, and how to
calculate a water footprint:
https://www.watercalculator.org/water-use/the-hidden-water-in-everyday-products/?cid=285

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) website includes pages in ‘water footprints’ and in particular the
water requirements of some key crops:
http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/footprint/water/index.cfm
http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/about_freshwater/freshwater_problems/thirsty_crops/

This International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is an agency of the UN. Their website has
many useful statistics on water use (for example, the UN suggests that we need 20–50 litres of safe
freshwater a day for drinking, cooking and cleaning):
www.ifad.org/english/water/key.htm

This carbon trust website explains how to calculate the amount of water needed to make a cup of tea:
www.carbontrust.com/news/2015/07/how-much-water-does-it-take-to-make-a-cup-of-tea/.

The water footprint network has a range of information:

http://waterfootprint.org/en/

The following websites provide information about areas of the world affected by a shortage of
water:

This UN site gives up-to-date information on water needs, useful for teachers:
www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/scarcity.shtml

This charity website has a lot of information including videos about girls who collect water rather than go to
school, and what is being done to help them:
https://thewaterproject.org/water_scarcity

This charity website explains the need for water and how help is being given:
www.wateraid.org/uk/what-we-do

Note: Cambridge International is not responsible for the content of websites recommended in this document. All
website references were accurate at the time of writing. As websites may be changed and newer, better websites are
being created, we recommend that you check all websites before using them and actively search for appropriate new
online resources.

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