Mural Key
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Teapot
The teapot is hot!
When we heat water in a teapot,
some of the liquid water evaporates as steam. Where did
the natural gas come from that was used to make the fire
to heat the water in the teapot? Where did the water come
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Kid Swimming
Have you ever gone swimming in a lake?
We get our drinking and cooking
water from the lake and animals use the lake for bathing
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Water Faucet
Is the water faucet on or off?
Made of brass, the old water faucet
helps bring water from outside into our homes for drinking,
cooking, and bathing.
Do you know where your water comes from? Can you look at the mural and guess where this water came from?
Did you know that fixing a leaky faucet can save up to
500 gallons of water a month? |
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Drinking Water in Glass
The water looks clean and wet.
The clean water flowing into the
glass comes from the lake. In Chicago, water from the
lake is screened to catch large debris, pumped into sitting
tanks to allow floc (particles clumped together) to settle,
filtered through ever-smaller sets of sand and gravel
for fine cleaning, and treated with chlorine and flouride.
How is your water treated?
Who is holding
the glass, ready to drink the water? Is it someone you
know? Is it you? |
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River
The river is winding far away from us.
When we're done using water, we
send it down the manhole back into rivers and lakes.
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Great Egret
The great egret is flying home.
This egret needs clean river water
so it can eat healthy fish and live in a healthy wetland.
Because the egret depends on the same water we use, it's important to conserve water and to avoid polluting it.
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City
Do you live in the city, the country, or the suburbs in between?
Life in the city depends on trains,
cars, trucks, and planes to transport people to home and
work and to supply food, clothing, and other things that
they buy. City "skyscraper" buildings give shelter to
people for their work offices and also for apartments.
How many things in the mural connect to the city?
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