Activity Books Understanding Water Activity Book | Page 62

Conserving water means we use less of it.
It doesn’t mean you quit washing the
S inks have
dishes and it doesn’t mean you skip
drains . T he
drinking a glass of water. Conserving
bathtub has a
water means not wasting water. Stopping drain . T he toilet
a faucet from leaking,
has a drain .
W ashing machines ,
keeping cold water
dish washers
in the refrigerator to
and some
drink, turning off
refrigerators
the water when you
have drains .
brush your teeth –
A ll the drain
all help
pipes in your
conserve water.
house carry
Good things result from conserving water.
water into a
larger pipe that is
underground .
W e like water to be clean when we use
it . A nd we clean it up after we have
used it and are ready to return it to
I t connects to
another larger
pipe that is part of
the water cycle . the sewer system .
WASTEWATER TREATMENT
PLANTS CLEAN OUR 
USED WATER. is a whole lot of
T he sewer system
pipes .
T hey carry
the waste water
to a wastewater
treatment plant .
U S E
W A T E R
W I S E L Y !
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