EARTHSC 2WW3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Water Scarcity

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Earth Sciences
• Course: EARTHSC 2WW3
• Professor: N.Mc Laughlin

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Water scarcity-not enough water to sustain human necessities (map) There are economic, social, and physical issues wrt to water scarcity. Leads to (cid:395)uestio(cid:374)s like (cid:858)does wate(cid:396) sca(cid:396)city co(cid:373)e to those of lesser means or do those of lesser (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s co(cid:373)e to wate(cid:396) sca(cid:396)city(cid:859) 97% of the world is salt water. He will keep mc with numbers super close ex) wont do 1975 and 1977. Water wheels developed in greece and rome. Brigham young-salt lake valley utah-dry area and diverted water. Randomly tells us answers for midterms-come to all class. Highest level found in flint is 13,000 parts per billion-flint michigan (hamilton sister city)-now.