GEOG 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Great Lakes Areas Of Concern, Biosolids, Sewage Treatment
23 Feb 2017
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3/10 households in canada today utilize bottled water as their main source of drinking water. Relationship between increase in income and increased use of bottled water: although you are less likely to depend on bottled water if you are university educated. Average person in 2003 consumed 50l of bottled water in a year. About of all bottled water comes from a municipal tap. Many predict that water"s role in human conflict will increase as human: (cid:884)(cid:888)(cid:883) rivers whose watersheds cover (cid:886)(cid:887)% of the world"s land area are transboundary waterways. We use an amount of water that is equal to 10% of global runoff. We can increase supply or reduce demand: lowering demand is more difficult politically. To increase supply we have used pipelines to transport water from more plentiful areas to less plentiful areas: la grew by using water from less inhabited regions of california.
