Wastewater Treatment 

Speakers 

Narrator – N1 (Josh) 

[music] 

N1: After finding out about the water cycle, I started wondering more like what happens to the water from the kitchen sink, or the dishwasher, or my bath water? 

N1: Or what about when I flush the toilet? 

N1: Does that just go into our lakes and rivers or our reservoirs and dams? 

N1: So this is where the used water from homes and businesses ends up. 

N1: Here they remove the stuff from the sewage so the water can be safely recycled. 

N1: One type of recycled water is used at treatment plants to look after their important wetlands, and for animals too. 

N1: A second type of recycled water is purified so much that it's used for things like firefighting, watering parks and gardens. 

N1: Sports ovals and even some zoos use it to keep their animals happy. 

N1: There are even some homes that use this recycled water in their gardens and flushing toilets. 

N1: What's that smell? 

N1: What? 

N1: Back in the 1800s, people didn't have treatment plants, so their washing water, their poo and their wee was flowing down the streets. 

N1: That's what's making people super sick as well as making them super smelly. 

N1: Hey, what happened to my voice? 

N1: Please take us back. 

N1: So what do you all think? 

N1: Water is so precious, isn't it? 

N1: And because we don't have much usable fresh water, it's so important that we recycle it so we don't use up all our clean drinking water. 

N1: And because water is so precious, the next time I flush the toilet or help my parents with the washing, I know where that water ends up. 

N1: And the next time I kick a ball in a lovely green Oval or see a fresh flower in a park, I know that my wastewater helped. 

N1: Good on you, poo.