In this forum you can pick any environmental issue connected to freshwater and present it
to the class. The chapter in the text as well as the two major films (Cadillac Desert and
Blue Gold) contain a plentitude of questions you can develop further. Do you think we will
reach a point in time when humanity will fight wars over the rights to a fresh water source?
Will the growing human population (heading towards 9 billion) have sufficient freshwater
by 2050? Our growing industry infrastructure has polluted freshwater considerably at this
point in time. Can the world continue to grow in this fashion without compromising the
safety levels of waste/toxins/pollutants in the freshwater resource? What do you think is
the most critical issue in regards to fresh water?
Beyond bringing up such issues, I would like you to also pay attention how we should
manage of current resources of freshwater in a sustainable fashion.
After reading and watching the films i notice we had little fresh water and how much
humans are contaminating it. I had never really payed attention how easy we can
contaminate fresh water and how little supply we have also how much we depend on it and
how most of it is drinking water. But we are not the only one who use fresh water, 40% of
the fish live in freshwater, Despite their value and importance, many lakes, rivers, and