Despite seventy percent of the world's surface being covered with water, there is a potential shortage of this natural resource. Only a small percentage is fresh water and much of that is inaccessible or threatened. Learn about fresh water, the water cycle, water treatment, threats to the water supply, the effects of water scarcity, and what individuals can do to help protect this essential resource.

Concepts

drinking water, water treatment

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Additional Tags

fresh water, water cycle, water scarcity, water shortage, eschooltoday: your cool basics on water shortage, threats to water supply

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)