SPECIAL+UNIT+-+WATER+(with+American+Government)

CLASS NOTES
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RESOURCES
Some advice: When using Google to search for water resources--or for any other research you do--you can often get better results by: [|The water cycle] in languages from Afrikaans to Zulu [|United Nations Environment Program Water page]
 * Using Google Scholar to retrieve high-quality (usually academic or scholarly) sources
 * avoiding sites like ``yahoo.answers or ``answer.com; anyone can answer a question whether knowledgeable or not
 * not relying on Wikipedia, though it's a fine first step

CLICK HERE for the: [|WATER USE CALCULATOR]

THE ECONOMIST: [|Special Report on Water] 2010
=[|NY Times data on water systems]=

=DEBATE RESOURCES=

http://www.cbc.ca/news/features/water/ Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Water for Profit series

**CASE STUDY RESOURCES**

Some good general resources:

Encyclopedia of Earth [|Encyclopedia of Earth] sort of a wikipedia, with fact-checking

United States [|Desalination: solution to US water scarcity?] a blog post US desalination projects and whether they are a long-term solution

Middle East [|A bibliography of clickable links on water in the Middle East]

China [|water scarcity in China]

[|China's health and environment: water scarcity, pollution and health]

Canada [|Canadian government site on water resources]

Bangladesh [|BBC on arsenic]

[|news article on water availability]

[|water crisis in bangladesh]

Mexico [|Time article on Mexico City]

Australia [|Australian water crisis]

[|Confronting the water crisis in Australia's cities] This is an entire 228-page book as a pdf. Takes a while to download.

Russia [|Russia's infrastructure problems] also, good general source for water issues globally

[|Russian water quality]

Sahel [|Water is Life blog, on Sahel]

[|Sahel water forum] long pdf report

India [|Imminent water crisis in India]from an NGO that bills itself as ``futurist''

Chile [|President creates committee to confront national water crisis]

[|Chile considers reform of freshwater rights]