In class we have been doing reading each week here is my reading work from this week. We have to research words, and our questions answers in our KWL chart
Name: Charlotte Date: 26/5/15
KWL Chart
In the first column, write what you already know about sewerage. In the second column, write what you want to know about sewerage, pump stations and vacuum sewers. After you have completed your research, write what you learned in the third column. What I Know What I Want to Know What I Learned.
What I Know
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What I Want to Know
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What I Learned
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That sewage comes from our toilet,shower, sinks etc
Sewage goes into our lakes and rivers
Sewage travels through pipes
and then goes to a landfill where some of it goes into our soap and hand sanitiser.
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Why does sewage go into lakes and rivers?
Can we reuse sewage?
is sewage useful?
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because fresh water drainage systems got too full and so they had to put the sewage into the water and rivers
yes we can by extracting and getting rid of the germs.
Not really. Sewage is not helpful for plants nor water but like i said in my question: Can we reuse sewage? we can still use it for water.
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Day 2 - Questions (Answers these questions using your text).
But where do you start when an entire city has been brought to its knees?
“Obviously a wrecked sewerage system is a major health hazard,” says Simon Christie, a structural engineer with SCIRT. “Fixing that was our top priority.”
- Why was fixing the sewerage system ‘top priority’? because the people of christchurch needed water and toilets to live.
The Three Waters
A city’s water supply is a complicated business! This is because there are three different kinds of water to deal with:
2. What are the three different kinds of water to deal with? Stormwater, drainage water and street water.
Day 3 - Vocab (What do the following words mean. How can these keywords help you to understand the text?)
convey means to transport or travel to a place
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sewerage means drainage from sewage
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water waste means water that has already been used
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contamination means something that contaminates or carries something unclean or bad
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infrastructure is the systems of a country fixing faulty of something
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potable is the nice safe water the runs from our taps
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liquefaction is what happens when some wet soil loses it strength.
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silt is a material of a size between sand and clay it is like soil
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biosolids is moisture contents that is inside moisture
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vacuum sewer is a system that uses pressure in a piping network.
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innovation is a new idea more effective device or process
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stakeholders is a person that is in charge of something like a business they make all the decisions.
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Day 4
Colloquial expressions - what do the following expressions mean?
“meet the same fate” You and me have the same fate, Which is the same future
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“Generally speaking” Means when your talking and you say “generally speaking” that means that many people say it so you have gotten lots of people's opinions
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“every cloud has a silver lining” Is a sad or upsetting time but there is a comforting or happy side to it eg: if you want the rainbow you have to deal with the rain.
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“up and running” Everything is working, everything is ok.
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