The+World+without+water

Preparation work to be completed before the lesson: Please watch the following video. Your task when you come to lesson is to be prepared to discuss in your groups: What are the major problems causing a "world water crisis" and what can we do to solve the problem.

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How many litres of water do you use every day? Have a guess.

Now watch the coca cola video and think about some of the key issues of water today. (please ask your teacher for a copy- again too big to upload here). How do the following statements all link together?


 * Before Coke the water level was at 20 feet. Now it’s down to 150-165 feet. || Coca Cola says that water table fall is due to lack of rainfall. ||
 * Vanessa is a little girl gets picked on at school. She is told she is a dirty peasant. || “All the wells are empty” ||
 * Coca Cola states they use less water than agriculture. || It costs a years wage to connect to the water supply ||
 * Water pipes flow past many houses. || Many families are having to leave their homes ||
 * “My child has died from diarrhoea.” || The water from agriculture goes back into the water cycle ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The water from Coca Cola is taken away on lorries and not put back into the water cycle. || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Coca Cola needs 3 litres of water to make 1 litre of coke. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The aquifers are drying up || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Families are getting themselves into debt to pay for new bore holes. ||

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">You can use some of the statements above in your next activity/task

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">Homework activity (Group work): <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Produce a website on the controversy between Coke and local farmers using the attached template <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Here is the rubric to use to check you are "ticking all the right boxes" and will score a high mark on this assessment

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Here is the link for your pages <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Group 1 Newspaper <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Group 2 Newspaper <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Group 3 Newspaper <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Group 4 Newspaper <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Group 5 Newspaper <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Group 6 Newspaper