Water Crisis Vocabulary - Mr. Boggan

Scarcity

• to make impure or dirty

• in short supply

• using more resources than can be replaced

• not able to be changed, reversed or recovered

global

• worldwide

• an illness or sickness

• an underground water supply

• poor, in a state of poverty

overconsumption

• to make impure by adding something harmful or unwanted

• a large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply

• long term goals

• using more resources than cab be replaced

contaminate

• not able to be changed, reversed, or recovered

• measures contributing to cleanliness and good health

• an illness or sickness

• to make impure by adding something harmful or unwanted

aquifers

• an underground water supply

• maintaining a clean condition in order to promote hygiene and prevent disease

• a large or artificial lake used as a source of water supply

• suitable for drinking

irrevocable

• to make impure or dirty

• not able to be changed, reversed, or recovered

• poor, in a state of poverty

• in short supply

resource

• measures contributing to cleanliness and good health

• anything obtained from the environment to meet our needs and wants

• long term goals

• an acute intestinal infection

potable

• the process by which pollutants are removed from wastewater

• to remove salt from

• impossible to that that it might happen or exist

• suitable for drinking

aims

• an illness or sickness

• long term goals

• to make impure or dirty

• an underground water supply

cholera

• a situation where the available potable, unpolluted water withing a region is less than that region's demands

• measures contributing to cleanliness and good health

• an acute intestinal infection

• worldwide