Do your students know where their water comes from and where it goes after they flush it down the toilet, sink, or shower drain? Do they know how much water on Earth can be used for drinking and what most drinking water is used for?
Dr. Mark Nelson knows the answers in A Wastewater Story!
Follow Dr. Mark Nelson as he shows you how to build a Wastewater Garden® right in the backyard of an aboriginal communities home in Western Australia. Wastewater Gardens® provide a sustainable way to treat wastewater by contributing to the conservation of fresh water resources; enhancing the natural environment with landscape beauty and biodiversity; providing food, wood and other harvestable resources from their plants; and avoiding the use of chemicals and far less machinery or electricity—all the while lasting longer than conventional sewage treatment systems and providing small habitats for other small organisms at the same time.
Key points you will learn about with this project:
- Australian geography
- Water resource and scarcity issues
- Information abut different types of wastewater and cycles of waste
- Awareness about the important role that water plays in biotic life (most importantly human life)
- Where water comes from and the water cycle
- What humans do to treat wastewater and problems associated with these
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How to build Wastewater Gardens® and their advantages
Download Instructions: To view the documentary of the Wastewater Garden ® project in Western Australia and meet Dr. Mark Nelson, click on the “ Wastewater Story Documentary” link to download the film. In order to save the video to your computer right click and choose ‘Save Target As ’. Choose a location on your computer where you can conveniently locate it. The download will take anywhere from 15 to 40 minutes depending on the speed of your connection. If it is going to take you longer than that and you would like to order a hard copy of the video for a small fee to cover the costs of materials please fill in this form. To download all word and PDF documents to your computer you can right click and choose 'Save Target As' and save them to a location on your computer.
Wastewater Garden® Information Pack (PDF 104KB )
Wastewater Story Documentary (99MB movie file, 30 minutes)
Wastewater Garden® Video and Information Packet Worksheet (word document 35KB) -student version (blank)
Wastewater Garden® Video and Information Packet Answer Key (word document 60KB) -teacher version (contains questions, an answer key and some comments and discussion)
To find supportive links and more information please visit our resource link for ‘Wastewater Gardens®’.
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