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Water Resources • Water cycle • Water supply and distribution • Water use and demand • Drinking Water • Ecosystems and dams • Water rights
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Water Resources
• Water cycle• Water supply and
distribution• Water use and
demand• Drinking Water• Ecosystems and
dams• Water rights
Water use and demand
• Irrigation • Electricity generation• Agriculture leveled off• Population growth:
increases domestic use
• Diversion of resources
Diversion of resources
• Aral sea: river diversion
• Shrinking sea• California divert water
from Mono lake
Prevention of floods
• Channel rivers• Loss of habitat• May not prevent
floods• Restoration in the
everglades, return to native vegetation
Dams
• Loss of land• Flooding controlled• Water storage• Irrigation/drinking
water• Hydroelectricity• Prevent fish migration