• Lesson

Protecting Our Water Resources

  • 20m
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Water covers around three quarters of Earth’s surface and is essential to all life forms and yet our most precious resource is under threat. Be it drinking water scarcity, poor access to sanitation and hygiene facilities, or the pollution of marine habitats, human activities are causing untold damage to people and planet. As the effects of climate change are intensified in the coming years, resource management will become even more challenging.

In this lesson, we’ll address what we can do as humankind to protect the blue planet

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