Role Play - Dealing with water shortages

The kids have been put into a real-life situation - there is no more fresh water in the town they live in. They've been divided into four groups of people: wealthy people, poor people, politicians and businesspeople.

They were asked first to in groups that had one wealthy person, one person, one politician and one businessperson. They discussed the problem and tried to reach some agreements about how to deal with it. This was very difficult!!!

They then got together with people of the same type to discuss ways to solve the problem, and they found it much easier to agree.