Introduction: The Problem With Water
Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' , 1797
Let's say you heard this famous quote while studying sustainability in your geography class and it got you to thinking about how people around the world have difficulty getting clean water to drink and cook with. Perhaps you did a quick Google search and saw something about the "Warka Water Towers". This led you to YouTube where you found the 2:44 minute video below:
You decide this would make a great topic for a research paper that will be due soon but you want to know more before you start looking in the library databases. So what do you do? Most likely, you will go to your favorite search engine, like Google.
In this section we will learn how to:
- Choose which web search result to click on first
- Evaluate a website for scholarly use
- Use Wikipedia for good
- Use Google Scholar
Let's get started! Just click on the "next" button in the bottom right hand corner.
Citations & Attributions
Video source: "Warka Water Towers Harvest Drinkable Water From the Air Links to an external site." from Dezeen Links to an external site. on You Tube Links to an external site.
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