What are the five options for meeting existing water scarcity needs and growing demands?

What will be an ideal response?


The five options for meeting existing water scarcity needs and growing demands are: "(1) capture more of the runoff water, (2) gain better access to existing groundwater aquifers, (3) desalt seawater, (4) conserve present supplies by using less water, and (5) make food production more efficient."

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  • Low viscosity magma
  • High viscosity magma
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Which approach to the study of economic geography identifies the complex ways that people acquire and interpret spatial information?

A) Logical Positivism B) Structural C) Poststructural D) Behavioral E) Neo-conservative

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Which of the following rock types is most likely to host shale gas or shale oil?

A. coal B. very fine-grained sedimentary rocks with low permeability C. coarse-grained sandstone with high permeability D. coarse-grained sandstone with high porosity E. All of these choices are correct.

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The niche of a species is the functional role of that species in the community that it belongs to. Species that have narrow niches (have very specific resource requirements) are said to be ________, while species that have broad niches (able to use a wide array of resources) are known as ________.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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