Informational Texts
- Santa Fe drinking water article Buckman Diversion
- Albuquerque drinking water article San Juan Chama Project
- LA Times article. “Americans use twice as much water as they think they do, study says” http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-americans-underestimate-personal-water-usage-study-says-20140227-story.html#axzz2v99eazt7
- A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park (2010: Clarion Books, 128 pages)
- “How Does Water Use in the United States Compare to That in Africa?” https://www.awf.org/blog/how-does-water-use-united-states-compare-africa
Materials
- Indoor Water Use Graph http://www.epa.gov/WaterSense/pubs/indoor.html
- USGS Poster – Water: The Resource That Gets Used & Used & Used For Everything http://water.usgs.gov/outreach/Posters/water_use/grade.html, and USGS Water Use Activity
- Optional: Water Footprint Calculator
- Optional: Water Use in Other Countries
- Find a guest speaker from your local Water for People Committee: http://www.waterforpeople.org/take-action/volunteer
- OR Water for Life video: http://www.archive.org/details/Unworks-MTV-WFL
- Optional: The Water-Energy Connection
- Power Couple: The Shocking True Story of Water and Electricity video, with viewers’ guide and posters http://www.abcwua.org/education/Energy_Water_Nexus.html
- Understanding the Energy Demand of Bottled Water. http://www.earthday.org/sites/default/files/3.%20Understanding%20the%20Energy%20Demand%20of%20Bottled%20Water_5-8%20Lesson%20Plan.pdf