1. Management of Water in LICs
UNIT 2

2. Specification detail
 5.3a The management of water usage:
In LICs, including appropriate technology for water
supply in small communities.

3. What is ‘appropriate technologies’
 technological choice and application that is:
 small-scale,
 labor-intensive,
 energy-efficient,
 environmentally sound,
 locally controlled

4. How is water usage managed in LICs?
 Water aid: here
 There are 5 methods mentioned on p157-158
 Hand-dug wells
 Rainwater harvesting
 Gravity-fed schemes
 Tubewells and boreholes
 Recycling

9. Task: Managing water in LICs
 Decide which you think is the best
 Describe it, illustrate it and then say why YOU think it is
the best
 Decide which you think is the second best
 Describe it, illustrate it and then say why YOU think it is
the best
 And so on

10. Extension materials
 Tourism and water: here