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UNIT 3: Land and Water Use

This unit includes Chapter 15, 16, 9, 10, 12, and 13 from the textbook.  

Scroll down for PPTs, review videos, animations, and diagrams.

Note:  Special thanks and acknowledgement to the staff at Pearson for providing the information and diagrams for the PPTs.  Also, thanks to Ted Ed for the videos.

Ch.15:Freshwater Resources

In Class PowerPoints:

Please download the PPTs and study them, as a means of taking notes.  We will be moving through them in numeric order and each PPT is roughly timed for one day of class.  Click on the buttons to the right to access the PPTs.

Water Resources:

Where We Get Our Freshwater:

Fresh Water Scarcity - An Introduction to the Problem:

A Tour of the Three Gorges Dam:

APES Chapter 9 Water Resources:

Conflict in the Amazon - Belo Monte Dam:

Bringing Back the Colorado River Delta:

Change The Course - Help Save The Colorado River:

Renewal - A Reborn Colorado River Finds Path to the Sea:

Aral Sea - A Man-made Environmental Disaster:

Depleting the Water (60 Minutes):

Last Call at the Oasis - Feat. Jack Black:

From Toilet to Tap - Getting a Taste for Drinking Recycled Water:

How Seawater Desalination Works:

When is Water Safe to Drink?

APES Ch.14 Water Pollution:

An Update on "Last Call At the Oasis":

Safe Drinking Water Act 40th Anniversary:

Ted Talk - Atrazine: 

Janicki Omniprocessor - Managing Waste Water:

Here's Where NYC's Sewage Really Goes:

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