Learning About NEWater

In the picture, the children are on a learning journey at the NEWater Visitor Centre. They are looking at a display that explains how used water is collected and treated until it becomes clean enough to drink. A guide is standing beside the exhibit and explaining the process, and some students are taking notes or asking questions. What I also noticed is that they are shown the actual filtration membranes, which makes the process much easier to understand than reading about it.

One learning journey I really enjoyed was a visit to the Singapore Science Centre with my class in Primary 4. We watched a demonstration where liquid nitrogen was poured over a flower and it shattered like glass when it was tapped, which I have never forgotten. I learnt that things become brittle at very low temperatures, and it made me much more interested in Science lessons afterwards. I think I remember it so clearly because I saw it happen instead of just reading about it.

There are many simple things we can do at home. We can take shorter showers and turn off the tap while brushing our teeth or soaping the dishes, because water running for even a minute adds up over a year. We can also reuse water, such as collecting the water used for washing rice and using it to water plants, which my grandmother does. Most importantly, families should fix leaking taps quickly, since a slow drip wastes far more water than most people realise.