It’s school holidays so last week we had a trip to the zoo in Melbourne – just about the best zoo ever I think.

There’s a new water plant there – down near the back gate – and it’s quite big. It’s a big room and you can see into it through windows along one wall with information boards. Inside, there are lots of pumps, pipes, tanks and stuff. It was pretty impressive.

The plant takes water from rainfall and some of the enclosures and treats it so it is class A recycled water.

The recycled water is then used for washing animals, filling pools around the zoo, watering the gardens and flushes all toilets in the zoo. Can you believe they’ve used about 50,000 kilolitres in 4 years? That’s a lot of saved water…

Posted: April 14th, 2009 under collecting water, junior water.
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