How do we look after our river?

As part of our inquiry into the Waikato River and it's history we have been exploring the quality of the water in the Waikato River and how this has changed over time and been effected by human activity in the area. The leaners have been investigating how we can better take care of the river. On Friday we discovered how what we put into the ground, or onto it, near water ways can collect in the soil and then make its way into the river. The next step in this investigation is to look at how we can educate our peers about keeping the water healthy and what we can do as a community. Watch this space to find out what learners have come up with! In the meantime, here is an experiment we did with an aquifer the illustrates how pollution gets into the water. If you look closely you can see the Polluted (red) water at the bottom of the rocks.