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Water and human health - for those wanting to explore further!

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IMS packages can be easily incorporated in Moodle. These are usually self-contained activities and resources. This is an example from Open University in UK, the site with the biggest number of Moodle users in the world (over half a million!)

Want to challenge yourself further? Go in depth about the link between water and human health? Here is your 'guided chance'.

 

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Water as a global resource
  • 2 The global water cycle
  • 3 The distribution of water and its use by people
    • 3.1 Water distribution and usage issues
    • 3.2 The impact of climate change on global freshwater resources
  • 4 Chemical pollution of water
    • 4.1 Levels of toxic substances
    • 4.2 DDT: a classic case in ecotoxicology
    • 4.3 Mercury
    • 4.4 Nitrogen: a developing threat to health
    • 4.5 Endocrine disruptors
    • 4.6 Postscript to Section 4
  • 5 Unit summary
  • 6 Self-assessment questions
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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