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My Presentation on the World Water Crisis for Class!
DaltheJigsaw
Mountain View Veteran
http://www.leonbasin.net/2012/03/presentation-on-world-water-crisis.html
Thank You! For your support!
Thank You! For your support!
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A couple of suggestions:
Under "what you can do", given the fact you give about untreated sewage, and also the fact that agriculture uses the majority of fresh water, I would think that an important thing people can do is to organize and lobby their municipalities to build sewage treatment plants. The treated water can be used for agriculture, golf courses, watering lawns. Water delivery systems need to be built to utilize treated waste water. This should have been done decades ago, but, лучше позно чем некогда, as they say. (Better late than never.)
You state that only 1% of the world's fresh water is readily available for use. I'd like to see some elaboration and explanation of that point. Why is only 1% of the world's fresh water available for use? Does it have something to do with where the water is located vs. where the major need is? Lake Baikal holds 20% of the world's fresh water, and it's readily available. See what I mean? But Siberia doesn't have a water shortage. The Near East and north Africa do have a water shortage, due to chronic drought, but they're a long way from Lake Baikal, lol!. And what's the story with India? Are the water shortages there due to lack of investment in infrastructure? Or do they have inadequate aquifers? Has water catchment during monsoon season not been explored? There's a real water bonanza--monsoon season! How has climate change affected monsoon season and other seasonal rain patterns around the world? It's the rains that contribute to groundwater availability and replenish underground aquifers.
What are the options to increase available water (such as rain catchment, digging wells)? To what extent does the water availability or water distribution problem interface with poverty or government neglect of marginalized communities (politics, in other words)?
What class is this presentation for?
I hope I haven't overwhelmed you. There should be plenty of old magazine articles discussing these points. Good luck.
The background image makes some passages difficult to read because black goes on black. Maybe make the background more transparent so it becomes more white.
You have to much text per sheet. Either reduce the text to catchwords or use more sheets. The audience usually doesnt want to read text from sheets it wants to hear it from the speaker. If you reduce the text you additionally reduce the danger that you just read off the sheets, which makes the presentation better.
I would remove the selfintroduction sheet. Just say that.