Water Unit

Evidence of Work

The water unit consisted of learning about types of bonds between chemicals and their formulas. We focused on the flint water crisis and how the water is contaminated, how much of the world's water is polluted, and the properties of water as well. Learning about these topics helped us understand and be able to work towards our final project that we would present.

Throughout this project our main goal was to come up with an efficient and helpful way to reuse, purify, or involve water in some way. My group had decided to find a way to help purify greywater to be used in more ways than one, thus lowering the water usage in ones' home. We focused on being able to reuse water that isn't as contaminated so it can bu used for other tasks in home instead of one use. Researching what greywater is, what is in it, where it comes from, and ways it can be reused was a big part of this project and creating the design for our filter. Making the filter to purify this water was the next step in our project so we could have grey water clean and reused all around. Taking data and tests, trial and error, and finally we were able to make a filter that cleans and purifies consistantly.

Explaining and understandig the chemistry behind why the things in our filter work was also a big part of the project. Being able to remove chemicals and harmful pathogens out of water and have clean, safe water was what we were striving for throughout the unit. In the end we were able to create and explain a filter that gets the job done and answer our driving question.