View a poster that illustrates the everyday risks to the U.S. supply of clean drinking water.

This website provides consumer information from the EPA about drinking water and water bodies.

How do people get their water reservoirs for drinking water? This site features an in-depth explanation of this question. Come and check it out.

An information page on understanding drinking water safety. It covers legislation, contaminants, private wells, water testing, water filters, and boiling water.

Provides information on what to do after a flood to protect well water from contamination, the testing of private well water, and protecting private well water.

Students learn about the differences between types of water (surface and ground), as well as the differences between streams, rivers and lakes. Then, they learn about dissolved organic matter (DOM), and the role it plays in identifying...

Students measure the effectiveness of water filters in purifying contaminated water. They prepare test water by creating different concentrations of bleach (chlorine-contaminated) water. After passing the contaminated water through...

In this hands-on lesson, middle schoolers will examine the labels on common household products to determine what hazardess chemicals they contain, then test less toxic alternatives to see their affects on water quality. Students will...

Students learn about the techniques engineers have developed for changing ocean water into drinking water, including thermal and membrane desalination. They begin by reviewing the components of the natural water cycle. They see how...

A resource from the Environmental Protection Agency that discusses the 25 years of progress, how the Safe Drinking Water Act has protected our health, standards for tap water, and the public's right to know.

This site is provided for by Reach Out Michigan! Use the site to learn if our eyes and taste buds can detect contaminated drinking water by doing a simple experiment.

Table outlines the EPA's standards for safe drinking water, defining levels of contaminants and listing possible sources of these contaminants.

This U.S. Geological Survey website features a fictious town, Dryville, and uses it to illustrate every aspect of water management that you might encounter. Click Home to access the site in Spanish.

Get to know this non-profit organization whose goal is to bring clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. Inspirational videos and stories are included on the site.

This virtual field trip for middle school students looks at aquifers and their place in the hydrologic cycle. Students learn why and how it is important to protect the source of your drinking water and some unique details about the...

Students are introduced to the fundamentals of environmental engineering as well as the global air, land and water quality concerns facing today's environmental engineers. After a lesson and activity to introduce environmental...

An extensive lesson unit on water quantity and quality and why it is important in relation to human life. Provides lessons that incorporate language, social studies, geography, and health. Tests are also provided. This is one chapter of...

This activity focuses on getting students to think about bacteria, water quality and water treatment processes. Students develop and test their hypotheses about the "cleanliness" of three water samples prepared by the teacher. Then they...

Learners learn about water quality testing and basic water treatment processes and technology options. Biological, physical and chemical treatment processes are addressed, as well as physical and biological water quality testing,...

Non-profit organization that educates and trains people to safeguard public health and the environment. Water and wastewater industries are important parts of an environmental plan that ensures the future use of Canada's water supply.

This is online resource is for teachers of all grades. The Water Sourcebook contains activities grouped according to grade level. Detailed lesson plans are provided along with glossary and fact sheets.

Students learn about water management, treatment and purification- global issues that must be addressed to ensure a continued supply of safe water for the growing human population and for the organisms with which we share this planet.

Students experience firsthand one of the most common water treatment types in the industry today, flocculants. They learn how the amount of suspended solids in water is measured using the basic properties of matter and light. In...

Students learn about the human water cycle, or how humans impact the water cycle by settling down in civilizations. Specifically, they learn how people obtain, use and dispose of water. Students also learn about shortages of treated,...