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Humanities and social sciences / Year 7 / Knowledge and Understanding
Version 8
Curriculum content descriptions
The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa (ACHASSK185)
Elaborations
- investigating the causes of water scarcity, for example, an absolute shortage of water (physical), inadequate development of water resources (economic or political), or the ways water is used
- investigating whether the use of water in their place is sustainable
- discussing the advantages and disadvantages of strategies to overcome water scarcity (for example, recycling (‘grey water’), stormwater harvesting and re-use, desalination, inter-regional transfer of water and trade in virtual water, and reducing water consumption)
- examining why water is a difficult resource to manage and sustain (for example, difficulties in accounting for its economic value, its competing uses and variability of supply over time and space)
- investigating land use management practices that have adversely affected water supply, such as land clearing and some farming practices
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
ScOT terms
Water use, Water resources, Water treatment, Groundwater, Lakes, Rivers