How do communities deal with the scarcity of water? Aqueducts, desalination, or recycling urine, are a few examples discussed in a video that focuses on the importance of water conservation.

What happens to humans when there is a limited supply of freshwater? This is the focus of a video that discusses the affects on communities of freshwater as a limited resource.

This video segment from a WPSU documentary Liquid Assets connects public health to the availability of clean and safe drinking water and elaborates on the threats our bodies face due to increasing kinds and quantities of pollutants.

This video segment adapted from Last Oasis highlights the impact of a variety of water conservation efforts including installing low-flow toilets and planting grass that does not require a lot of water.

Students focus on the environmental engineering problem of providing clean water as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own water filters.

Students focus on the environmental engineering problem of providing clean water as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own water filters.

Students focus on the environmental engineering problem of providing clean water as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own water filters. [11:30]

View a portion of this model lesson where students test a variety of filter materials to see how well they remove particles and color from contaminated water. [12:25]

Learn about contaminants that can make water unsafe for humans, and of methods being used to purify it, e.g., through flocculation.

Global Problem Solvers is an animated STEM series from CISCO that features a group of middle school students who work together to solve social problems. With each teen possessing a distinct STEM talent, the students develop a business...

Observe a teacher's lesson, and see her introduce the engineering challenge of designing water filters with a picture book. In this story, Salila, a girl from India, learns about environmental engineering as she designs her own water...

A 40-second video instructing viewers on the dangers of unmanaged water.

Learn how water shortage in Rajasthan, India effects women specifically. [5:53]

In this video segment adapted from Rx for Survival, learn about the importance of clean water and sanitation systems. Hear the story of how, in the early 1990s, Mexico's entry into a North American trade agreement was threatened by a...

Autumn Peltier, a 16-year-old from Wiikwemkoong First Nation in Ontario, speaks up and fights for clean drinking water in Canada's Indigenous communities. [3:23]

How can engineering improve the lives of millions of people? The people of Bangladesh were getting really sick because of the bacteria that they were getting from their water, which was untreated and dangerous. Amy Pickering decided that...

This video segment adapted from 'In Small Doses: Arsenic' explains how arsenic contaminates groundwater and how people can protect themselves from its hazards. Most arsenic in groundwater comes from minerals in rocks that dissolve...

It's hard to go anywhere these days without seeing someone with a bottle of drinking water. But when did that start -- and how has the water bottle become such a part of current US culture?

This video presents an argument for not using bottled water. Learn about the consequences that come from using the bottles for our environment. Also discussed is a comparison between tap and bottled water nutrients and taste. [8:04]