Personal Perspective

When you first came to

Have you always had
Tenerife was it strange not
access to clean, fresh
to be able to drink tap
water?
water?

Do you use bottled water in

the kettle?

Are you happy that sodium

Do you collect rainwater?
is added to your water?

Fluoride is added to water

in the UK – are you missing
out here in Tenerife?

If there was no tap water Do you care about issues

for one week, how would it surrounding water, or is it
change your life? ‘out of sight, out of mind’?

Do you use water filtration

systems at home?

How does my water use affect that Do I need to make an effort to

of others? save water?
 Local / National Perspective
Think about Tenerife, Mainland Spain and UK.

What emergency measures are in

Is my community at risk place for coping with droughts or
from flood or drought? floods in my community or
country?

Who uses the most water?

Desalination plants Is water big business in

Tenerife: desalination,
-v-
bottled water, bagged ice,
Reservoirs etc

Forest fires and draught

Tenerife tourism – no rain, UK tourism – lots of rain ,

good thing! Lake District, good thing!?

Hydropower

Are the oceans clean? How much water does a

Fish farms. golf course use?

Is it important to repair old

water pipes?

In 2003 there was an

The price of water – should
outbreak of legionnaires
it be the ‘cheapest’ drink?
disease in Tenerife, in a spa
Ethics.
in Adeje.

Canvey Island Floods

River Thames - means of

Hard / Soft water
transport?
 Global Perspective

Hydropower – the future?

Is water a basic human

Rainforest destruction
right?

Do we have an ethical
responsibility to help other
countries?

Are things getting worse or

Why are tidal waves so
are we just better
destructive?
informed?

Why do some places get

monsoons and hurricanes?

Is it ethical to use fresh

‘drinking quality’ water for Sea and river pollution –
showers, toilets and flora and fauna should be
washing when some people protected.
don’t have water to drink?
Ice caps are melting, the
sea level is rising – what
should we do?

Is ocean transport better

Where does water come
than air – carbon
from and where does it go?
emissions?

What causes droughts/floods?

Why do some countries have an Who owns a river that passes

inadequate supply of clean water? through several countries?

Why do people need clean water?

Are there any water borne Charity – WaterAid

diseases that kill? www.wateraid.org

40% of the world population don’t

have sanitation – no clean water,
no toilets!