TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Water Desalination Plant
Students use a thermal process approach to design, build and test a small-scale desalination plant that is capable of significantly removing the salt content from a saltwater solution. Students use a saltwater circuit to test the...
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Nrdc: Clean Water and Oceans
What prompted congress to pass the Clean Water Act? Has this legislation been successful? The Natural Resources Defense Council offers information on fresh and ocean waters, pollution control, conservation, and more.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Things That Matter to Flocculants
Prior to reaching households, water is exposed to a variety of treatments designed to render it fit for human consumption and use. One of the first treatment steps is the removal of suspended solids using chemical additives called...
Read Works
Read Works: Water Worries
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage discusses the world-wide shortage of clean drinking water and ways to conserve water. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading...
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: How Is Drinking Water Cleaned?
Get an overview of how water is treated in order to be safe to use and drink.
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Water Science for Schools Activities Center
This website offers three activity centers: Questionnaires, Opinion Surveys, and Challenge Questions. Take a look at these interesting water research activities from the US Geological Survey. Click Home to access the site in Spanish.
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Nutrition Action: Water, Water, Everywhere
The Center for Science in the Public Interest offers a discussion of contaminants that can be found in tap water and chemicals added to water in the public water systems. The topics discussed are arsenic, parasites, lead, turbidity, and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: You Are What You Drink!
Contamination in drinking water sources or watersheds can negatively affect the organisms that come in contact with it. The affects can be severe - causing illness or, in some cases, even death. It is important for people to understand...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Did You Ever Wonder? How a Portable Water Purifier Saves Lives?
Students explore contaminated drinking water. The resource consists of pictures, quotes, and links to additional resources.
Museum of Science
Ei E: Water, Water Everywhere: Lessons: Designing a Water Filters
This unit offers four lessons demonstrating a classroom working on the engineering problem of providing clean water as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own water filters.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Effects of Water Pollution
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Water pollutants can have an effect on both the ecology of ecosystems and on humans. As a result of water pollution, humans may not be able to use a waterway for...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Water Distribution
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How water is distributed throughout the world.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Water Distribution
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses how water is distributed throughout the world. Includes research assignment.
Channel 4 Learning
4 Learning: Geography Essentials, Water
This site discusses the differences between clean water, clear water, and waste water. It also provides information on water usage and provides worksheets, images, and links for teacher usage.
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Filter of Hope: Clean Water of Life
Filter of Hope has developed a revolutionary, household water filter specifically for families living in abject poverty (less than $2/day) worldwide. Our filter removes all bacteria, protozoa and microorganisms from contaminated water...
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Nova Scotia Environment: Iron Bacteria and Sulphur Bacteria [Pdf]
Information page on iron bacteria and sulfur bacteria, both of which can affect the quality of drinking water from a well. Includes guidance on how to recognize their presence, what to do if there is a problem, and how to maintain water...
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: Let's Talk About Water
Discover why water is so important, especially clean water. Find out where water comes from and how we can make it safe to drink and free from pollution.
Other
Water: The Foundation of All Sustainable Development [Pdf]
This PDF chart shows income inequality in relation to access to clean and safe drinking water.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Water Treatment Process
In this illustratd diagram of the water treatment process, click on each step to learn more information.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Safety of Water Study Guide
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key points about water quality. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.
Geographypods
Geographypods: Patterns in Environmental Quality and Sustainability
This collection of five learning modules looks at issues related to environmental change and sustainability. Topics addressed include changes in the atmosphere, soil, water, and biodiversity, and what can be done to counteract this and...
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Water: Environmental Topics: Water Topics
Find out how EPA research supports efforts under the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act.
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Filtration Investigation
Working in teams of "engineers", students learn about filtration systems and how they can remove impurities from drinking water.
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Public Water Supply
This site from the U.S. Geological Survey provides a definition of public water supply, classification of public water, a description of consumption, supply, and distribution of water, water quality, a small public water-supply system,...