Clean Water + Sanitation Quiz

What is the main focus behind the goal:

Clean Water and Sanitation?

• Discussing different causes for water pollution

• Ensuring communities have water availability

• Improving the quality, availability, and sustainability of clean water for all

• The process behind producing clean, drinkable water

What can be classified as Safe Drinking Water?

Why is it important that everyone has access to clean, safe, drinkable water?

What role does the Charcoal have in the Water Filtration activity?

• Filters out the final small impurities

• Removes impurities that are too small to see

• Filters out the large impurities

• Provides a layer to stop the other layers from mixing

What was the purpose of the oil spill activity?

• To show what polluted water systems can do to our health

• To see how much oil is polluting water systems and drinking water

• To show how difficult it is to filter oil out of water and how it affects our drinking water

• To understand what water polluted by oil can look like

What was the purpose of the Water Filtration activity?

(multiple correct answers)

• Provides students with knowledge of how to filter water in real world situations with basic materials eg. camping, hiking etc.

• To learn the role of each layer in the filter.

• To show how water moves through sand, pebbles and charcoal

• Shows a basic version of how water filtration works.

What is greywater?

• Water from domestic, commercial or industrial use and typically contains human or chemical waste

• Household water from baths, sinks, washing machines (not including toilets)

• Salty water that is not quite as salty as sea water

• Water that has been modified with various materials such as ink, dye, etc.

How well do you think both activities worked out? Are these methods of water filtration simple for communities to do outside the classroom?

• Yes, I found that the water was easily filtered and can be completed with little effort

• Maybe, I found that the water did not easily filter so these activities may be difficult for communities to follow

• No, I found the water was still very dirty and unfiltered by the end of both activities, and communities should not try these methods

• Unsure, I am not fully sure whether these methods are possible for communal use