Click a slide in the list below to begin the trip, use the arrows to navigate to the next slide once the trip begins.
1. Welcome to the Water Conservation Virtual Field Trip!
Those of us who live over the Spokane Valley – Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer are lucky to have one of the cleanest and most productive aquifers in the world. It’s up to all of us to keep the aquifer healthy and one of the ways you can do that is by practicing water conservation. Conservation means using only what you need of a resource and leaving the rest for other uses.
2. Where Does Water Go?
Did you know, that if you leave the water running while brushing your teeth, you use 2-5 gallons of water? Try an experiment tonight. See if you can use only one cup of water to rinse your mouth and toothbrush. Congratulations – you conserved (saved) water! How much water you will save in one week, one month or one year just by turning off the facet when you brush your teeth?
3. The Water Cycle
Before you learn more about saving water, let’s take a look at how the water cycle works. Did you know that the glass of water you drank today may have been the same water a dinosaur drank millions of years ago? It’s true!
The water on earth changes form from water to vapor to ice or snow, but there is the same amount of water now as when T Rex was strutting around, and the water has been continually recycling all this time. This cycling is called the water cycle. Click here for a water cycle activity.
