Water Use and Management

What is an aquifer?

What does recharge rate refer to?

What is permeability?

What does it mean to have high permeability? Draw what this might look like.

What does it mean to have medium permeability? Draw what this might look like.

What does it mean to have low permeability? Draw what it might look like.

What ground materials type is needed to form an aquifer?

What ground materials help to filter pollutants from water as it recharges an aquifer?

How can an aquifer “run out” of water?

What will happen to an ecosystem if an aquifer becomes too low?

What will happen socially if an aquifer becomes too low?

What will happen economically if an aquifer becomes too low?

Explain why a farmer might drill a well near their center-pivot irrigation system.

What are the different methods of disinfection in water treatment plants? Include why each method would be used compared to another.

What problem could happen to a community with old water pipes?

Identify different man-made pollutants that could impact surface water or groundwater and where they come from.