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Water Pollution Cleanup

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Participants design processes to treat water contaminated with acid, oil, and other pollutants.

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Hints for uses in your library	Use a large, shallow plastic bin to recreate an oil spill in the ocean. Participants can engineer booms and skimmers out of common items to isolate and clean the spill. Assign dollar amounts to each resource. Give the participants a budget that forces them to make choices as they can’t afford “the best” for both oil and acid removal.
Related Links	How Much Water is on Earth? Space Place in a Snap! Great Lakes Cleanup Video 4H: Upstream (Part 1) 4-H: Downstream (Part 2) Lawrence Experimental Station The Metropolitan Milwaukee Sewage Treatment Plant Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards Abel Wolman
Originating Source	Dream Big
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