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Student book questions
3.1 The importance of water
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Check your learning 3.1
Remember and understand
1 What activity uses the most water in Australia? How much of our water does it use?
2 How can water be used to help create electricity?
3 Using Source 1, categorise each water use shown as either an off-stream use (in which water is
removed from its source, either by pumping or diversion) or an in-stream use (in which water remains
in place).
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4 What other water uses can you think of?
Apply and analyse
5 Using Source 1, identify two water uses that compete with one another and so cannot easily exist
beside one another.