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Geography / Year 7 / Geographical Knowledge and Understanding / Unit 1: Water in the world

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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 (ACHGK040)

Elaborations

investigating the causes of water scarcity (for example, an absolute shortage of water (physical), inadequate development of water resources (economic), or the ways water is used)
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, because of its shared and competing uses and variability of supply over time and space)
investigating whether the use of water in their place is sustainable
investigating land use management practices that have adversely affected water supply, such as land clearing and some farming practices

General capabilities

Numeracy
Critical and creative thinking
Intercultural understanding

Cross-curriculum priorities

Sustainability

ScOT terms

Water use, Water resources, Water treatment, Groundwater, Lakes, Rivers

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