Water sources ~ Case studies

Water sources

Case studies

Natural resources are very important to all communities throughout the world.  In fact, without natural resources, we couldn’t survive! Water is one of them.

Clean water is an essential resource to human life. Current population growth and urbanisation trends mean water is increasingly scarce. At the same time, extreme weather conditions can also cause situations where excess water is a problem.

How much water do humans use? The answer depends on where they live and on their socioeconomic status.

Today our students geared themselves up with a thorough research on finding out how people living in the other parts of the world get their water from.

As a class we studied three case studies from SRILANKA where Sanuthi get her water by storing ‘rain water’. In northeast MOROCCO; Najet used to walk 2.5 miles to get water but then they had well to provide water. In Shanghai, CHINA; Ling receives treated water in her apartment taps from Yangtze river.

As a group students used library books to do their research and find about the water sources in different parts of the world. Unbeknown, two groups choose their study on the under-developed countries; Hasmabad in India and the group chose Africa. Two other groups chose the developed countries like UK and Australia and brought their findings.