Helpful web links

If you are looking for some interesting educational websites try some of these. They include some very informative and creative interactive sites suitable for classroom work or individual extension work.

Interactive Sites

• Water Cycle activities - interactive posters of natural and urban water cycles
• Virtual tour of Desalination Plant  (Tugun, QLD)
• Virtual tour of Purified Recycled Water Facility (Bundamba, QLD)
• Water treatment, and other related information (interactive site by French developer)
• Testing water quality - interactive pool scooping
• Home water investigator - explores each room in the house looking for ways to save water
• Drinking more water - allows students to discover how much water theyshould drink daily (links to WaterAid home page)
• Educational Games - related to international aid programs
• Groundwater game - matching Australian curriculum

All about Water

• Water sources - general
• Urban water cycle - Australian site
• Being WaterWise - loads of fact sheets and helpful water saving hints
• Climate change and variability - Australia
• Climate vs weather - Australian experiences of flood, drought, fire, cyclone
• Water Recycling - How is it purified?
• Treatment technologies - microfiltration etc. See also Reverse Osmosis
• Water for Food

Water Issues in Australia

• Water Reuse
• Salinity
• Groundwater
• Solutions for the Future - excellent Australian resource
• Urban re-use water cycle - new Australian resource
• Review of urban water quality regulation - National Water Commision report, May 2011

Interactive calculators

• WaterWatcher - Monitor home water use by reading and recording your water meter

Global issues

• Online  education resources from WaterAid

Other useful web links

•  related to water education
• general water websites