Water Resources

STEM – Earth Science

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Lesson Outline

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Lesson Outline
• Overview • Effects of Human Activity in Water
• Why Care About Water? – a short Resources
video documentation
• Significant Activities of People that
• Distribution of Water Resources Affects Water Resources
• Water Volume in Different Water
Bodies • Conservation of Water Resources
• A Look Back to Hydrologic Cycle • Ways to Help Conserve Water in Our
Everyday Lives
• Availability of Water Resources
• Water Footprints
• Amount of Water in Surface and
Underground

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Overview
Why Care About Water? – a short video documentation

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Distribution of Water Resources
Water Volume in Different Water Bodies
A Look Back to Hydrologic Cycle

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Water Volume in
Different Water Bodies
• 97.5% of Earth's water, nearly
all of it, is in the Earth’s oceans.
• 2.5% of Earth's water is fresh
water, water with low
concentrations of salts.
• Most freshwater is found as ice
• 0.4% of Earth’s water that is
freshwater that humans can
easily use.

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A Look Back In
Hydrologic
Cycle
• The world’s water exists
naturally in different
forms and locations: in
the air, on the surface,
below the ground and in
the oceans.

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Availability of Water Resources
Water Footprints
Amount of Water in Surface and Underground

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Water Footprint
• The water footprint shows the extent of water use in relation
to consumption by people.

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Water Footprint
• The three water footprints:
• Green water footprint is water from precipitation that is stored in
the root zone of the soil and evaporated, transpired or incorporated
by plants.
• Blue water footprint is water that has been sourced from surface or
groundwater resources and is either evaporated, incorporated into a
product or taken from one body of water and returned to another, or
returned at a different time.
• Grey water footprint is the amount of fresh water required to
assimilate pollutants to meet specific water quality standards.

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Amount of Water in Surface and Underground
• Freshwater in Earth’s Surface
• Surface waters, including lakes, ponds, reservoirs, rivers,
streams and wetlands hold only a small volume of the Earth’s
total fresh water
• Lakes contain by far the largest amount of fresh surface water.
• Wetlands, including swamps, bogs, marshes, and lagoons,
cover 6% of the world’s land surface and play a critical role in
the conservation of water resources

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Amount of Water in Surface and Underground
• Freshwater in Groundwater
• Ninety-six percent of liquid fresh water can be found
underground.
• Groundwater feeds springs and streams, supports wetlands,
helps keep land surfaces stable, and is a critical water
resource.
• About 60% of the water that is taken from the ground is used
for farming, and between 25% and 40% of the world’s
drinking water comes from underground.

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Effects of Human Activity in Water
Resources
Significant Activities of People that Affects Water Resources

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Significant Activities of People that Affects Water
Resources
• Five main activities done by humans that affects our water
resources:
• Agricultural Development • Modification to River Valleys
• Irrigation Systems • Construction of Levees
• Use of Agricultural • Construction of Reservoirs
Chemicals • Removal of natural Vegetation
• Urban and Industrial • Modifications to the Atmosphere
Development • Atmospheric Deposition
• Drainage of the Land • Global Warming
Surface
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Conservation of Water Resources
Ways to Help Conserve Water in Our Everyday Lives

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Ways to Help Conserve Water in Our Everyday Lives
• Simple ways we can help to conserve and protect water
sources.
• Use less water.
• Keep harmful substances out of the water.
• Keep pipes and appliances in good condition. 
• Use water-efficient appliances.
• Use water efficiently in outdoors.
• Drive less

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“ Thousand have lived without love, but one without water...
- W. H. Auden

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References

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References
• Carlson, D.H., Carlson, Plummer, C.C., and Hammersley, L., 2011. Physical Geology:
Earth Revealed. McGraw-Hill. 645 p.
• Junine, J.I., 2013. Earth Evolution of a Habitable World. Second Edition.
Cambridge University Press. 304 p.
• Kirkland, K. 2010. Earth Science: notable research and discoveries. Facts on File, Inc.,
212 p.
• Lutgens, F.K., Tarbuck, E.J. and Tassa, D., 2013. Essentials of Geology. 11th Edition.
Pearson Prentice Hall, 554 p.
• Tarbuck, E.J. and Lutgens, F.K., 2008. Earth – An Introduction to Physical Geology. 9th
Edition Pearson Prentice Hall, 703 p.
• Desonie, D., 2015. CK-12 Earth Science High School . http://
www.ck12.org/earth-science/
• http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1139/pdf/part2.pdf
• http://www.unwater.org/publications/publications-detail/en/c/396246/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvkzjt3b-dU

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ACTIVITY
• Track and create your 24 hour- water footprint and
identify ways to conserve water.
• https://waterfootprint.org/en/resources/interactive-tools/pe
rsonal-water-footprint-calculator/personal-calculator-exten
ded/
•Upload your output in the google link provided below:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNbAHeNo3hFHbdUx8pu1K6SxOEB
eIjWiimSDha0VMKmUUiuQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

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THANK YOU Insert Image

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