Why It Matters: Water Scarcity

Positives

• This podcast episode will help foster the understanding that water is a shared resource.
• A full transcript of the podcast episode is available.
• The show notes provide links to sources for further reading.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should have a basic understanding of the water cycle.
• An advertisement plays at 15:10.

Differentiation

• Civics or social studies classes could discuss the relationship between water availability and geopolitics.
• As an extension to this resource, consider inspiring the students to think of a creative way of making more water available to vulnerable people within their neighborhood or community.
• Science classes could use this resource for lessons about the water cycle, human uses of water, the thermal expansion of water, the phases of water, or how water is essential for life.
  
• Other resources on this topic include this resource about the water cycle, this article about how forests protect water for cities, and this United Nations article on climate migrants.