Task 1: How Much Water Do You Use?

Personal indoor water use calculator:

https://water.usgs.gov/edu/activity-percapita.html

 

Task 2: Thinking Beyond the Bathwater: Your Water Footprint

This article includes personal water footprint calculator:

http://waterfootprint.org/en/water-footprint/personal-water-footprint/

 

Activity 3: Water Supply Case Studies

Tokyo, Japan: 

https://www.waterworks.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/eng/business/supply/

https://www.circleofblue.org/2018/asia/recurring-dry-spells-fuel-water-worries-in-tokyo/

https://www.mlit.go.jp/tochimizushigen/mizsei/water_resources/contents/issues.html

https://isshinternational.org/8227/viewpoint/the-worlds-water-crisis-tokyo-is-predicted-to-run-out-of-water-in-the-next-few-decades/

Melbourne, Australia:

http://users.monash.edu.au/~gmudd/files/2004-WSUD-UrbanGW-v-Melb-v-WSUD.pdf

http://water-pire.uci.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/wat2-1087.pdf

https://www.theage.com.au/national/melbournes-water-sinks-to-nine-year-low-20070106-ge3xja.html

https://envirojustice.org.au/sites/default/files/files/eja_yrka_future_of_the_yarra.pdf

Cyprus:

https://washdata.org/data#!/cyp

http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/countries_regions/CYP/index.stm

http://english.people.com.cn/200701/12/eng20070112_340521.html

Kenya:

http://water.org/country/kenya/

https://www.globalwaters.org/sites/default/files/wfw_kenya_country_plan.pdf

http://www.irinnews.org/Report/34512/KENYA-Focus-on-Mt-Kenya-water-crisis

https://www.american.edu/cas/economics/ejournal/upload/marshall_accessible.pdf

Sao Paulo, Brazil:

http://time.com/4054262/drought-brazil-video/

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/28/sao-paulo-water-amazon-deforestation

North China Plain, China:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226084438_Sustainability_of_Groundwater_Resources_in_the_North_China_Plain

http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2001/10/26/table/

http://www.earth-policy.org/books/out/ote8_4

http://www.earth-policy.org/plan_b_updates/2001/update1

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/world/asia/10iht-water.3482730.html?pagewanted=all

 

Activity 4: Follow the Flow: Researching Your Water

Superfund Site Information System: 

https://www.epa.gov/superfund

USGS Water-Related Data and Tools:

https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources

EPA Ground Water and Drinking Water Information:

https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water