AC9HG7K02 Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences

Content descriptor the location and distribution of water resources in Australia, their implications, and strategies to manage the sustainability of water

Elaborations

• • Elaboration representing the location of Australia’s water resources, such as surface water and groundwater
• • Elaboration describing the distribution of Australia’s water resources, and its implications for people; for example, limited access to water for people in rural and remote places and its implications
• • Elaboration identifying the causes of variability in water resources or water scarcity; for example, an absolute shortage of water (physical cause), inadequate development of water resources (economic cause), or the ways water is used (such as farming, industry, drinking, washing or watering)
• • Elaboration explaining the factors that contribute to variability in water resources or water scarcity; for example, location, climate, topography, seasonality or evaporation
• • Elaboration examining why water is a difficult resource for communities to manage and sustain; for example, because of its shared and competing uses, and variability of supply over time
• • Elaboration examining how a strategy may manage the sustainability of water resources; for example, recycling (“grey water”), stormwater harvesting and re-use, desalination, inter-regional transfer of water and trade in virtual water, and reducing water consumption