Human actions on water insecurity

Question 1

How does the UN define water insecurity?

Answer 1

The capacity of a population to safeguard sustainable access to adequate quantities and qualities of water for sustaining livlihoods, human-wellbeing and socio-economic development, for ensuring protection against water-bourne pollution and diseases

Question 2

What are the causes of human water insecurity?

Answer 2

Over abstraction from rivers, lakes and groundwater aquifers, water contamination from agriculture and industrial water pollution

Question 3

What pressures are being put on water supply?

Answer 3

Increasing population improving living standards ad development in industrialisation and agriculture

Question 4

Why has water increased due to changes in diets?

Answer 4

Developing countries are adopting a more western diet and consuming more meat

Question 5

1kg of meat requires __x the amount of water it takes to produce 1kg of rice

Answer 5

10

Question 6

What has the overabstraction of groundwater in Australia led to?

Answer 6

A drought in 2019

Question 7

What was the physical cause of the drought in Australia?

Answer 7

Dry vegetation

Question 8

How much of the water that Australia consumes is groundwater?

Answer 8

1/3

Question 9

Abstraction has increased by ___% between the early 1980s ansd the early 2000s

Answer 9

100

Question 10

How much money did the drought cost Australia?

Answer 10

$100 billion

Question 11

What percentage of Australia’s native forests were burned down due to the drought?

Answer 11

20%