Watercare recount

“Yay” I was so excited that Sarah came to teach us about water care, but what I didn't know was that she was our water care teacher. She was going to teach us about WASTE WATER, which is like your pees and poops!!! When I first entered the room I saw Miss Paton and Sarah in the room. My class and I went and sat down on the mat waiting for Sarah to start. When Sarah started she left something in the car so she quickly went to her car and got her things. While she was gone my class and I started chatting about water. When Sarah came back, she started teaching us about water. It is very bad to put things down the outside drain because Water Care does not treat the water, it goes straight into the ocean and pollutes it. Ocean creatures will possibly eat it and get sick or get trapped in waste and die.

Sarah told us about the olden days and how people had to use bed pots to do their business in. In the olden days if you were staying in a hotel and you would do your business and put it under your bed. Then the chamber maids would come into your room the next morning and take your pot out. They would throw your waste into the river. In the olden days toilets were a very expensive thing and only wealthy and rich people could afford them. If you lived in the olden days and had a house you would have a shed with a pot to do your business in. Then men would come and throw away your waste into the nearby river. I am so glad that now in the present we don't need to use pots to do our business in.

Sarah told us how WaterCare treats the water. If you ever flush the toilet or use a sink the water will go down a drain. It will go straight through the pipe, and then head to the Mangere Treatment Plant. At the Mangere Treatment plant water is treated with a superbug. The bacteria is then treated with lights, before the water is sent back into the sea. 

After seeing lots of pictures and talking we went outside to do an experiment. The experiment was about making hills and mountains. It first started with a flat surface. My group and I got some rocks. We started to make hills because a street is never flat in Auckland. We started to make piles and piles until we were finished. I got a watering can and poured water over the rocks. The challenge was to guess how many rivers you would make by pouring the water over the rocks.

Later on Sarah told us about manholes and how workers would go underground to fix the pipes. In the end we got timers for when you're having showers. Sarah left and we all said thankyou and goodbye