Water+supply+problems

__A world without water__

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You are going to use the information from the video ' A world without water' to construct 3 case studies of water demand and water suplly problems.

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3 case studies:
•Bolivia- economic water scarcity •India- over use of resource by coca- cola •Tanzania- economic and physical water scarcity

For each of these case studies you need to be able to explain:
Why there is a problem What impacts this problem creates Who is it affecting What can be/ has been done about it?

Links:
Tanzania: [|The water margin] [|The politics of water] Bolivia: [|sell the rain] India: [|Farmers v Coca cola]

__**Water supply issues in HICs**__ __**Water supply problems in LICS**__ Watch this video and make notes on water issues in LICs

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Resource exploitation can cause problems to water supplies in LICs. Outline the problems caused (4 marks)
Exploitation of resources can lead to serious pollution of water supplies in LICs. For example a Coca Cola plant located in Kerala (India), was forced to close in 2004; as well as serious depleting groundwater levels (9 litres required to produce 1 litre of coke!), there were also concerns over severe pollution of water supplies due to contamination by heavy metals such as lead and cadmium from factory waste. In Peru, exploitation of rainforest areas due to drilling for oil by the Occidental Petroleum Company, has seen the release of high levels of heavy metals and hydrocarbons into the water supply, causing serious health problems and killing wildlife.

If this question was worth more marks, or as an alternative to one of the above problems you could also have mentioned: General increases in deforestation due to increased demand for land for cattle ranching, has also polluted water supplies in areas such as Costa Rica due to rivers being polluted with pesticides and fertilisers.