Water Science Activity Center (Water Science for Schools)

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I'm glad you decided to visit the Water Science Activity Center. This is the interactive section of our site where you can answer challenge questions, give opinions, and participate in questionnaires concerning water issues.

Our three activity areas are described below. Each area has a series of pages where you answer questions or give opinions. On some pages your answers will be entered into a data base and, after answering, you'll be shown a table of how those in other states and countries responded. When enough people have responded, we'll begin to see if others across the country (and world) have the same or different ideas, thoughts, and opinions about water. Maybe your class can have a discussion about why someone 2,000 miles away responded differently than you did.

	*Questionnaires*	Answer questions about where your home water comes from. Fill out a form to estimate how much water your family uses at home on an average day. See how other students across the country answered the same questions.

	Opinion Surveys	How do you think water problems rank in the grand scheme of problems? What do you think will be the biggest water problem of the next decade? Fill out these opinion forms to have your say -- and see what other people in other areas think.

	Challenge Questions	See if you know how much water it takes to grow a hamburger. Can you guess how much water a leaking faucet wastes in a week? Do you know how many baths you could get from a rainstorm? These activities should answer these questions and amuse you at the same time.

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Last Modified: May 28, 2003

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