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Welcome

  Dear readers, First of all we want to give you warm welcome to our first blog! The main goal of this blog is learning about water in general although we will focus on some specific aspects like the WWTPs (waste water treatment plants) and the water polution. It would mean the world to us if you came along with us throughout this journey. Will be waiting... See you next time!  With love, WWW 💦

The Urban Water Cycle

The Urban Water Cycle 💦 Where does the water we use in our daily lives come from? Or where does it go after we wash our dishes, after we shower or even after we brush our teeth? Great question, right? Well that's what we are going to aswer today! The urban water cycle is a complex but essencial cycle that we couldn't live without. Let's take a look... Before we tell you anything else... We think you should watch this video. After all, a video, is always the best way to start learning something new! ツ The Urban Water Cycle please click in "The Urban Water Cycle" - video by SEH  As you could see in the video, the water that arrives at our homes, starts for being captured in the water environment, going to Water Treatment Station where it is made suitable for comsumption. It is stored in reservatories and then, distributed to the population. After used, the water is collected and treated againto be returned to the oceans, rivers or seas in safe conditions for eveyon...

Water Pollution

 Water pollution ❤           So, today we'll teach you something more about water, more specifically about water pollution. But first, you have to know what pollution means. The word pollution can have plenty of meanings, it can be the act or a polluting effect as it can be the contamination or deterioration of the environment with chemical substances, garbage, noise, etc. Here you’ll learn about water pollution, but don’t forget that there is still lots of air pollution, noise pollution, soil pollution, visual pollution etc.      Each year, billions of pounds of trash and other pollutants enter the ocean. Where does this pollution come from? Where does it go? Some of the debris ends up on our beaches, washed in with the waves and tides. Some debris sinks, some is eaten by marine animals that mistake it for food, and some accumulates in ocean gyres. Other forms of pollution that impact the health of the ocean come from sources like oil s...

How much water do we spend?

 How much water do we spend? 🚱     Continue reading this post to find out mind blowing information!                 Concious spending is one of the hottest 'themes' of the day. The WWW team went out and asked some people a few questions. These questions were answered by random people on the streets that agreed to answer them*.     These were the questions: How long do you take in a shower? In every 2 months, how many times do you wash your car? How much money does a family of two spend? How much money does a family of three spend? How much money does a family of four spend? How much money does a family of five spend? How much money does a family of six spend?     And t hese were the results:      We also concluded that only 12,5 % of the intervieweds put a bucked under the shower while the water is heating up. *We went out and asked these questions during the pandemic. We were protected ...