Linda Sue Park shares that learning about Salva Dut and his life inspired her to write A Long Walk to Water. She shares that he's created an "organization that drills water wells in southern Sudan for villages where there has never been a supply of clean water". A clean water supply may be something you've never had to worry about before. Think about all the ways that you use water throughout the day. In many places, one can turn the hand on a faucet and clean water seems to magically appear! It's not magic though. The water doesn't magically appear out of thin air (or cylinder pipes!). Research how you get your water. Where does it come from? And how would your life be different if clean water wasn't readily available to you? Discuss this as a class and write a class response below. Make sure to end your comment with your grade level and the location of your class! We want to learn about the world, so knowing where you're communicating from is important.
Recommendation/Option: Create a class response to share where your water comes from. Collaborate to write your class response below in the comments. Then, allow your students to individually share their response via this Flipgrid (Code 3cddb7). Have your students watch and react to the videos submitted by others around the world, too! My class will be responding in both sections on Monday. Note: I'm monitoring the Flipgrid. Videos will be viewable once approved.
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Team Anderson
9/29/2017 12:10:49 pm
Our water comes from the ground water, and is pumped from wells to our home or to our water tower.
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Mrs. Caso's Class - Coronado, CA
10/2/2017 11:47:18 am
We just learned about groundwater and aquifers in Science class! We learned that this is a common way for people to get water, but it doesn't rain enough where we live to do this in San Diego.
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Missy Krufka
10/2/2017 09:42:46 am
Our water starts in the clouds with rain and it goes into creeks and rivers. Then the water travels into dams and water treatment centers. After, the water goes into the pipes and into houses. Finally, the water comes out of the faucet.
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10/2/2017 10:05:41 am
San Diego's water comes from northern California, the Colorado River, and local rainwater runoffs. In most years, we do not have enough rainwater here to provide water to all the people, so we must import water. Snow and tributaries create a water source for northern California. A 444 mile aqueduct runs from this source in northern California to San Diego to supply us with water. We also get water from the Colorado River. The Colorado River runs to Lake Havasu in Arizona, and then there is an aqueduct that runs from Lake Havasu to San Diego to provide us with water. San Diego rainwater runoff is also collected in 9 city-owned reservoirs. A few years ago, 95% of our water came from outside of San Diego. Last year, we finally got some rain (yay!), and most of our water came from our own Reservoirs.
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Celeste Caso
10/2/2017 11:38:17 am
We are in 5th grade!
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Felicia Hamilton
10/2/2017 11:46:05 am
In Connecticut, the goal is to provide customers with safe, reliable drinking water. - Nash
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Ottawa Gr.7 Students
10/3/2017 11:13:41 am
Our water comes from the river, which is then filtered and stored in the Ottawa water tower. Then when we turn on the tap, it is brought to our houses through the pipes. Water is used in so many different ways, such as showers, washing hand and dishes, doing laundry, watering our lawns/gardens, drinking, etc. Without clean water, our lives would be much different. For example, we wouldn’t be as healthy as we are today. We would also have to walk very far distances just to get one bucket worth of water! Anyways, in our opinions, water is a very important source, that we all use in our daily lives.
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LISA KINCAID
10/3/2017 06:07:35 pm
We talked about where our water comes from. Here's what we wrote as a 6th grade ELL class.
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Team Schoepp
10/4/2017 10:12:36 am
Grade 7 and 8's from Alberta, Canada:
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5/6 in Castle Rock, CO
10/4/2017 11:11:59 am
Our water used to come primarily fro wells, but since our aquifers were being depleted, we have been transitioning to surface sources for the past few years. Locally, Plum Creek provides some of our water now. It is run-off from the nearby Rocky Mountains.
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Mrs. Caso's Class - Coronado, CA
10/4/2017 01:41:49 pm
It's interesting that we get our water here in San Diego from the Rocky Mountains as well! Thank you. :-)
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