Week 6 Course Materials

Assignments due

• Peer Evaluation #1 (due by Sunday 11:59 pm)
• Hydrosphere Module (covered by RAQ 3, in class Tuesday)
• Week 6 Team Roles: all roles but Reporter due on Canvas before your quiz section; Reporter notes/summary due by Friday 11:59 p.m.

Hydrosphere L1: Hydrosphere RAQ

Readiness Assessment Quiz 3 will be on this date. This RAQ will cover the Hydrosphere Module on Canvas.

Additional Resources:

• "Water Resources" Ch. 6 in Elemental Geosystems Download "Water Resources" Ch. 6 in Elemental Geosystems
• "Atmospheric Water and Weather" Ch. 5 in Elemental Geosystems Download "Atmospheric Water and Weather" Ch. 5 in Elemental Geosystems

RAQ Overview:

Hydrosphere QS1: Drinking Water

This week's readings consider access to drinking water. In addition to the textbook chapter, I am asking you to consider some public-facing work from Raul Pacheco-Vega, a water access scholar who has published quite a bit on the politics of bottled water. Finally, I am including a 3 minute explainer on the Flint water crisis. As you do the readings for this week, reflect on your own water habits - do you drink tap water? Why/why not? What broader events and systems shape your decision whether or not to drink tap vs. bottled/filtered water?

Read:

• "Bottled Water" in Robbins, Hintz & Moore (2014) Environment & Society: A Critical Introduction. Wiley Blackwell. Download "Bottled Water" in Robbins, Hintz & Moore (2014) Environment & Society: A Critical Introduction. Wiley Blackwell.
  • You can also access the E-book through UW Libraries here: LINK Links to an external site.
• Watch: "Flint's water crisis, explained in 3 minutes. Links to an external site." Vox. [Youtube, 3 minutes]
• Raul Pacheco-Vega. 2016. Flint, Mexico and the dangerous, slippery slope from tap water to bottled water Links to an external site.

Optional:

• Raul Pacheco-Vega. 2016. The transnational life of Fiji bottled water Links to an external site.
• Contois, Emily. 2024. "Your resolution to carry a bottle of water has a history." TIME Magazine. Links to an external site.

Hydrosphere L2: Hurricanes

In class today, we will bring together information from the Atmosphere and Hydrosphere modules to consider how hurricane activity in the age of anthropogenic climate change. How is climate change affecting the frequency and severity of hurricanes? What do these changes mean in terms of vulnerability, resilience, and adaptive capacity for different regions and populations?

Hydrosphere L2 Hurricanes slides Download Hydrosphere L2 Hurricanes slides