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Providing water and wastewater services is only the start of what we do, as we have a much wider role to play in creating a healthy environment and developing a sustainable future.

Water Cycle

Water is a precious gift shared by all.

Falling from the sky as rain, it eventually makes its way into rivers or soaks into the ground. Ultimately, it returns to the ocean and evaporates, forming rain clouds and the cycle starts over. Our role is to supply you and your family with fresh drinking water and take away your wastewater. By taking care of these essential services, we’re creating a better place for all of us to live in. Providing water and wastewater services is only the start of what we do, as we have a much wider role to play in creating a healthy environment and developing a sustainable future.

Before water can be collected from rivers, reservoirs, or wells evaporation, condensation, and precipitation must occur.

Seeing that water is in a constant cycle, it’s hard to say where it begins, but we will start with the sun.

Evaporation

The ocean is heated by the sun causing it to evaporate into water vapor. The vapor then rises into the atmosphere where it meets up with the water that has transpired from plants and soil evaporation.

Ask your students to consider what happens to a puddle when the sun shines on it.

Condensation

The cooler temperatures chill the rising water vapor, causing it to condense and form water droplets in clouds. Clouds form when water droplets and dust particles mix in the atmosphere. If it’s warm outside, have your students consider why water appears on the outside of the glass when cold water is poured into it.

On a cold day, ask your learners why there are water droplets on the inside of a window.

Precipitation

When water vapor condenses, the air can’t hold it any longer so it falls back to earth as rain, sleet, snow, or hail.

Try asking your students what part of the water cycle it is the next time it rains.

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