Blue Gold Water Wars

Watch the documentary Blue Gold: Water Wars, and answer the following questions:
 

1. How many liters of water does it take to produce 1 apple in California? ____________
2. In South Africa, water meters run on __________. A house burned down because the owners 

and the neighbors couldn’t afford to run the water. As a consequence _____ _________   died.
 

1. Cochabamba is a city in which country?  _________________
2. Which groups of people were protesting about water privatization? ____________  and ______________
3. Which country has the US established a military base in, allegedly to gain control over a major aquifer. ____________
4. Which former president owns thousands of acres of land in the same region. _______________
5. This region of the world has been described as the Middle _______  of ________.
6. The name of the company ‘kicked out’ of the region was ___________.
7. Name some ways in which water usage in the United States could be reduced:
8. How do you think we should approach the question of water availability on a global scale? Should it be a right? Is putting a price on it the fairest, or only way to distribute it? Give reasons for your answer.