Water Crisis in Big Cities 1/27/2020
By Mariana Garcia-Serrato
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Last updated about 4 years ago
5 Questions
What does this graph and map tell you about the water crisis in big cities?
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Which urban area has experienced extremely high water stress levels?
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Which urban area has experienced the lowest water stress levels?
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We showed you a graph, plus a map. According to the map, what regions of North America have the greatest decline in groundwater? Which factors may have caused this decline? Explain your answers using the CER framework.
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Tokyo is an outlier on the dot plot graph. (An outlier is a value that is much greater than or much less than other data values. Outliers are unusual in comparison with the other items.) Does this mean that Tokyo has higher water stress? Or, does it mean something else? Explain your answer.
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Write a >140 character Tweet that could accompany the sharing of the graph.
This means, you would write a short sentence or two that describes one surprising thing you noticed from the graph and you accompany it with one or two relevant hashtags.
DO NOT start your tweet with the phrase "I noticed", AND #nohashtagnograde