• This video explores water consumption in the Western United States, focusing on the enormous amount of water used for agriculture and the solutions to water scarcity.
  

Positives

• This video visually compares the water used for irrigated farming, industrial use, and residential use.
• It is easy to understand and provides more than one perspective on the solutions.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be familiar with the concept of irrigation.
• This video contains ads.
  

Differentiation

• Connect this video to lessons about the effects of agriculture on the climate.
• Teachers could use this as a hook to evaluate the pros and cons of raising cows as livestock.
• It could lead to a discussion of different alternatives to beef that are more sustainable.
• It could be used in an economics class to evaluate the costs and benefits of rotational fallowing on farmers.

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