• This video is about the global freshwater crisis and its relationship to climate change.
• Students learn about changes in the water cycle, droughts in California and the Amazon rainforest, statistics on water scarcity, and potential solutions to this crisis.

Positives

• It offers many solutions including improved irrigation, cover cropping, agroforestry, pollution regulations, and water recycling.
• It is divided into eight timestamped chapters that are linked in the description.

Additional Prerequisites

• The content of the video ends at 8 minutes, 46 seconds and the remaining time is an outro.
• Students should be familiar with certain terms including aquifers, agroforestry, deforestation, groundwater, and transpiration.

Differentiation

• In a science class, students can summarize the positive feedback loops mentioned in the video and brainstorm their own examples.
• Cross-curricular connections can be made with a civics course by having students analyze the most appropriate solutions and create action steps for their local municipality.
• Other resources related to these topics include Why It Matters: Water Scarcity, Poverty: Climate Change & Water Security, and Essentials of Environmental Science: The Water Cycle and Water Pollution.
• A lesson related to this resource is Drought Causes: Climate Change Impacts.

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