Mapping future water stress

HOW WATER AVAILABILITY MAY CHANGE, AS TEMPERATURES, POPULATION AND INDUSTRIALISATION INCREASE

These projections of per-capita water availability were made by Martina Floerke and colleagues at the University of Kassel in Germany.

Waterdrop recorded at 2000 fps

Looking into the Oceans, BBC's Britain from Above

The technology of satellite radar has revealed the climate of the oceans. This enables vast weather systems to be detected, mapped, monitored and forecasted. This also shows how seas are expanding because of the melting of the ice caps as well as lakes drying up and causing water shortages.

Ships crossing the channel, BBC's Britain from Above

This visualization shows 24 hours worth of shipping, using ships GPS, as they pass through the Channel being dodged by ferries connecting England and France.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/world-water-supply/540.html

i-show you this vid

• Title: World water supply
• Duration: 01:26
• Description: This clip describes how despite 97.5% of the world being covered in water, under 1% of it is availble to drink. It concludes by explaining how some Gulf states are using desalination as a solution to their water supply problems. With thanks to: NASA.
• Subject: Geography   Topic: Rivers and Water Management
• Keywords: gulf, UK, India, water, supply, sea,desalination, resource management

Pipes from Below, BBC's Britain from Above

This is a short piece just describing and informing us about the sewage systems we have in place in the UK and how we deal with the waste we produce.