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Critical Understandings

We need to understand our relationship to local, regional and global aquatic systems and promote solutions to address water issues to ensure the long term health and sustainability of our world.

During this investigation you will explore human impacts on aquatic systems and examine the place of science and technology in addressing water issues. As a result of this investigations students should arrive at the following understandings:

Human intervention in our water systems has often had disastrous consequences.
Most water disasters can be attributed to human fault and are therefore preventable.
Every story or event is told from a point of view and there can be many different viewpoints related to a particular issue.
Availability of clean, fresh water at both the local and global levels is critical to the survival of all living things including humans.
Interventions by humans has both positively and negatively influenced relationships between landforms, water and climate.
Water quality influences all living things and has a direct impact on the productivity, diversity and quantity of species that exists in an aquatic environment.