Extra Credit Questions for "The Last Drop"

1. Describe the basics of water use. How much do people need? Who has it?

2. Explain how rivers, groundwater, and pipes work as described in this article.

3. Explain the importance historically of clean water.

4. What is the "diamond-water paradox"?

5. How do meat, farming, and water work together?

6. Explain how and why food farmers get into the water production business.

7. Are dams a good idea?

8. When a river catches fire, what is it time to realize?

9. Is the US getting better or worse at using the scarce resource of water? Proof?

10. What is are water distillation and reverse osmosis plants and what are their benefits and drawbacks?

11. Explain the problem and logic of seeing water as a right and not a commodity.

12. Why doesn't the world solve its water problem?

13. Is this article hopeful?