Video: Blue Gold

Name: ______Date:______

1 – Why is Earth called the blue planet? ______

2 – What is another name for the water cycle? the ______cycle

3 – True or False?: There is an endless supply of water.____

4 – What percentage of the Earth’s water is fresh? _____%

5 – How are we polluting water? (list 2) ______

6 – Where is the most polluted water in the US? ______

7 – What precautionary measures do agents take in case they fall in the polluted water? ______

8 – True or False? Human remains flow through the water._____

9 – What happened to 60% of the wetlands in the world? ______

10 – What is an aquifer? (If you don’t know the answer, skip this question and look it up in your notes after the video.) ______

11 – What does desertification mean? ______

12 – Why is erosion a problem? Because water cannot ______into the ground because Earth is getting harder.

13 – What happens when water hits sidewalks and roofs (non permeable ground)?

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14 – What do dams do? ______

15 – Do you live in a water rich country? ______

16 – What do you think a water cartel might do? ______

17 – Who is Margaret Thatcher? ______

18 – What is the significance of this number 7 000 000 000? ______

19 – What did the World Bank propose to do? ______

20 – What does WTO stand for? ______

21 – What happened to the president of the farming industry in South Korea?

______22 – True or False? Most of the water in France is privatized. ______

23 – It has been said that what major company owned Mexico? ______

24 – What do you require to desalinate water? ______

25 – True or False? Plastic bottles are taxed at a higher rate than glass bottles. ______

26 – What corporations are investing in water (list 2)

27 – What is desalinization? The removal of ______from water.

28 – True or False? The Great Lakes are targeted._____

29 – What is another name for Perrier? ______

30 – What is a SLAPP suit? ______

31 – What is another name for ice mountain? ______

32 - What is Michigan telling the world? ______

33 – What happens if we massively remove water from an area? (list 3)

34 – Where does most of the apple juice in the US come from? ______

35 – What is Kenya doing to get their way out of debt?

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36 – What happened to the activist that attempted to save the Lake in Kenya?

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37 – True or False? You can make it rain using dry ice? ____

38 – What might LA do to try to maintain their water demands? ______

39 – What are many water wars presented to the rest of the world as?

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40 – Where is the US military doing their training? Why do you think?

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41 – Where is the largest aquifer in the world? ______

Another good video about water http://www.tappedthemovie.com/ 42 – Who is buying land near the largest aquifer? ______

43 – Where is the middle East of water? ______

44 – What should we use to irrigate the land? ______

45 – What is the problem with dams? ______

46 – In the use the largest amount of water is used for ______

47 – What is hydroponics? ______

48 – What did the people of Bolinas California do? ______

49 – How can you reduce your water consumptions? ______

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5 0 – What is the name of our watershed? ______

51 – Where does our drinking water come from? ______Wastewater Treatment Plant

Water Pollution Control Centre

The City of Sarnia collects sewage through its sewer system and treat it at 2 plants. One is in the south end of Sarnia, capacity of 38,700 m3/day average flow per day and in Bright's Grove average daily flow capacity of 2,045 m3/day. The Wastewater Treatment Plant is secondary step feed activated sludge facility. The Bright's Grove System is based on the New Hamburg method using sand filtration. The City of Sarnia Wastewater Treatment Plant biosolids are processed using the patented N-Viro technology. The N-Viro process uses alkaline materials, temperature and drying to produce a soil amendment product (a type of fertilizer). The product is sold to local area farmers. With this technology the City of Sarnia provides a safe, beneficial use for their biosolids.