Water insecurity
What Water insecurity means in Geography GCSE, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: AQA
A situation in which demand exceeds supply, so clean water is scarce and people often rely on polluted sources.
Lacking reliable access to sufficient quantities of acceptable quality water.
When the demand for water is greater than the available supply, or when water quality is too poor to use.
Topics that use Water insecurity
- Water (AQA GCSE)
- Management and sustainable use of water resources are required at a range of spatial scales from local to international (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- 'Grey' water
- Aquifer
- Atmospheric circulation
- Dams and reservoirs
- Desalination
- Economic development
- Economic impacts
- Geopolitical conflict
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