Visualizing Water
Posted Mar 19 2012
Cutting across issues of health, environment, and economy, understanding water is critical to addressing some of the…
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The UN has set the goal of allowing access to 20 liters of clean water per person — a number dwarfed by the average daily usage per person in developed nations. This piece shows how much water is used in the daily routine of a normal American, and how much water would be needed for the whole world to live this way.
The UN has set the goal of allowing access to 20 liters of clean water per person — a number dwarfed by the average daily usage per person in developed nations. This piece shows how much water is used in the daily routine of a normal American, and how much water would be needed for the whole world to live this way.
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Place the water usage of your country and your lifestyle in a global context with this interactive visualization.
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This animated visualization, winner of our Times Square challenge, shows groundwater levels around the world. It will be displayed on a massive video display in Times Square starting on World Water Day.
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Created collaboratively by the Visualizing.org community, this project maps water samples collected by students around the world during the the Global Water Experiment.
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Understand the historical circumstances of our use of water with this nicely-illustrated infographic.
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In addition to daily use in our homes, freshwater plays a critical role in agriculture and industry. The cycle of collection and management is explained in this diagram, and global usage trends are compared with Canada and Egypt serving as two very different examples.
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Access to water doesn't do any good if it is too expensive to buy. In this piece, water prices are put into context by links to related news articles.
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A look at how countries are doing on the UN Millennium Development Goal of providing access to safe drinking water, and how this progress affects rising consumption levels.
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Climate change is radically altering the world's water conditions. This visualization explores projected scenarios for Europe's freshwater resources in coming decades.
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This complex data explorer allows you to contextualize a country's water resources and annual withdrawal with social and economic indicators.
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