Drinking water comes from many different sources, including surface water and groundwater. Environmental engineers analyze the physical properties of groundwater to predict how and where surface contaminants will travel. In this lesson, students will learn about several possible scenarios of contamination to drinking water. They will analyze the movement of example contaminants through groundwater such as environmental engineers must do (i.e., engineers identify and analyze existing contamination of water sources in order to produce high quality drinking water for consumers).

Concepts

drinking water, engineering, groundwater, pollutants, water quality, stem

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Additional Tags

environmental engineers, vadose, water contaminants, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, aquifer, contamination of groundwater

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)