Did you ever read Magic School Bus at the Waterworks? In this episode we got our own tour through the water works and how water is cleaned up from Dr. Dan Zitomer. We talked about how safe water gets to our faucets, how we treat it, and how we manage it. Rachel especially loved this … Continue reading Water: Treatment and Purification
Month: October 2019
Water: Plastics and Waste
Last week we talked about how important clean and accessible water is. This week, we talk to an expert who thinks about how do we keep water clean. Dr. Anne Schauer-Gimenez works with Mango Materials to produce materials that are biodegradable. These products come from waste products of cleaning water and, when broken down, help … Continue reading Water: Plastics and Waste
Water: Quality and Pollution
Right now both Rachel and Alyssa live in Michigan, a state surround by thousands of miles of shoreline and four of the five Great Lakes. Our state was also recently affected by the Flint water crisis. Being in an area where water is thought about frequently, we wanted to learn more about how our water … Continue reading Water: Quality and Pollution
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