1. Long Island’s Water

2. Where do we get our drinking water from???

3. Have you noticed water towers like these before?

4. Aquifers
Underground layer of sediment or rock capable of yielding fresh water

5. There are 3 aquifers underneath Long Island:
Upper Glacial – our water table (lakes, streams, puddles)

6. Magothy – Biggest Aquifer
Magothy – Biggest Aquifer. This is where we get our drinking water from (water is hundreds of years old!)

7. Lloyd - This is our deepest aquifer and it contains the oldest and cleanest water (water is thousands of years old!)

8. N.Y. City water supply:
Water flows down from the Catskills in long underground pipes to reservoirs in Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island.

10. How do we use Water?

11. To brush your teeth (water running) 5
Activity
Gallons of water used
To flush a toilet
5-7
To run a dishwasher
9-12
To wash dishes by hand 20
To brush your teeth (water running) 5
To shave (water running)
10-15
To take a shower
15-30
To take a bath 37
By average person daily
123
In the average home during the year
110,000

12. Water Pollution

13. What is Pollution?
Pollution occurs when concentration of substances in the environment become large enough to have an adverse (negative) effect on humans, plant, and animal life.

14. How do we pollute?

15. How can water deep underground become polluted?

16. Garbage Trucks dumping trash at a Landfill