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This video shows how fresh water can be created from salt water using a solar still, demonstrating two steps of the water cycle, evaporation and condensation. 
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Editor's note: Updated on May 23 with before & after satellite images (above) Explore the Bing map, or Google map of Moore, Okla. More on the Oklahoma tornado:
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The causes, impacts and responses to an atmospheric or hydrological hazard.
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Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The causes, impacts and responses to an atmospheric or hydrological hazard.
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Colorado is cleaning up and counting the cost of the massive floods that caught many off guard.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The causes, impacts and responses to an atmospheric or hydrological hazard.
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Fresh water is essential for life -- and there's not nearly enough of it for the world right now. Why is that, and what could we do? Christiana Z. Peppard lays out the big questions of our global water problem.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa.
This is the second of two videos by Christiana Z. Peppard. The first which has also been Scooped for this unit is entitled 'Where we get our fresh water' and is also worth a look.
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Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The causes, impacts and responses to an atmospheric or hydrological hazard.
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Prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra warns population to expect floods as rising waters reach capital city
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The causes, impacts and responses to an atmospheric or hydrological hazard.
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Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The ways that flows of water connect places as it moves through the environment and the way this affects places.
Water is constantly moving from one place to another. The processes that move water are all part of the water cycle. In this visualization, the blue raindrop shows where water is. The red arrows show the processes that could move it to another place.
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Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The causes, impacts and responses to an atmospheric or hydrological hazard.
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Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The quantity and variability of Australia’s water resources compared with those in other continents.
In this illustration students will use climatic data to develop their understanding of the spatial pattern of rainfall in Australia and (as a consequence) the availability of water resources.
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Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa.
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This module is about the controversy surrounding the Three Gorges Dam and the impact it has had on the Chinese people and environment.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa.
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Water is essential to life but in such places as India, Pakistan, China, and Thailand deluges have once again caused misery. Typhoon Nesat hit the Philippines earlier this week on its way to south China.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The causes, impacts and responses to an atmospheric or hydrological hazard.
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Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The classification of environmental resources and the forms that water takes as a resource.
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Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The causes, impacts and responses to an atmospheric or hydrological hazard.
This ESRI story map explores the local communities in Colorado that have been impacted by recent flooding.
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BOULDER, Colo. -- National Guard helicopters were able to survey parts of Highway 34 along the Big Thompson River Saturday. Here are some images of the destruction along the roadway.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The causes, impacts and responses to an atmospheric or hydrological hazard.
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Seventy percent of Perth's water comes from underground. Imagine what would happen if that source of water dried up. It...
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The classification of environmental resources and the forms that water takes as a resource.
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Jeremy Fernandez looks at how we extract, move, store and use water in Australia.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The quantity and variability of Australia’s water resources compared with those in other continents.
Dan Kelly's curator insight,
April 13, 2014 10:30 PM
how we extract, move, store and use water in Australia.
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Every Last Drop is an interactive website which takes a detailed look at how much water we waste on a daily basis and how small changes can make a big difference.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa.
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Freshwater is one of today’s most pressing developmental challenges, impacting food & agriculture, gender equality, health & sanitation, population & urbanization. Yet it's poorly managed & faces severe pressure.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa.
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In a project that will be watched by engineers and biologists across the nation, construction crews today will begin a three-year, $84 million project to tear down the hulking San Clemente Dam in Californias largest dam-removal project ever.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa.
This example is in the USA but too interesting to not include!
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Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The classification of environmental resources and the forms that water takes as a resource.
CD - The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa.
CD - The economic, cultural, spiritual and aesthetic value of water for people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and peoples of the Asia region.
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Flood Map shows the map of the area which could get flooded if the water level rises to a particular elevation. It may help flood risk assessment or flood management. Sea level rise map.
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The causes, impacts and responses to an atmospheric or hydrological hazard.
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Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa.
To access these resources you will need to create an account - but it's free!
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Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s insight:
CD - The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa.
The map has a great deal of data in the associated “dashboard.”
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CD - The nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia and West Asia and/or North Africa.
Get your students to create fresh water out of salt water!