Chapter 10

Email (tours): tours@melbournewater.com.au

Website (school resources): http://www.melbournewater.com.au/education

Website (link to Waterworks Adventure): http://www.melbournewater.com.au

Interactive CD-ROMs:

• The Bay uses Port Philip Bay as the location for a role-playing game dealing with water management issues. Five major problems and 18 major issues are discussed including freak storms, dying penguins and killer starfish.
• All About Water, a very helpful resource for teachers that shows the wide range of educational resources, excursions and exhibitions offered by Melbourne Water, is also obtainable.
• Other interactive CD-ROMs include Eastern Treatment Plant Explorer, WesternTreatment Plant Explorer and The Home Water Investigator.

Booklet and rain gauge: Every Drop Counts (Secondary) The booklet is full of fun activities to encourage students to take an active role in the conservation of water at school and at home.

Booklet and video: Drains to Our Waterways

Website: The Waterworks Adventure are web-based activities to help students understand the value and management of water as an urban resource. Other important information about the water cycle, frogs and caring for our water resources is also available on this website.

Tours of Melbourne Water's Western Sewage Treatment Plant and Winneke Water Treatment are also available. The exhibition at the Water Discovery Centre (Western Treatment Plant) allows students to follow the path of water through a transparent city.

Melbourne Water also manages a number of wetlands.

http://www.fatlion.com/science/sound.html
Good student site with activities and ideas.

http://www.bom.gov.au
This website contains excellent information about Australia’s water resources and links to water resources overseas. It also contains great demonstrations and class activities, such as a way to graphically model the water cycle.

http://www.epa.vic.gov.au
http://www.csiro.au
These websites contain data and other information about water quality, water resources and water management.

http://www.waterwatch.org.au
This Australia-wide organisation can provide links with water monitoring programs and other information.

http://www.sunsalt.com.au
This website discusses the salinity problem in the Murray–Darling Basin, shows how this company is helping reduce the problem and producing a range of useful salt products.

http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/dpi/index.htm
This is the website of the Department of Primary Industry. It can be used to find out the contact details of all the water authorities operating in Victoria.

http://www.melbourneaquarium.com.au
An outstanding facility with a range of educational programs that can be tailored to the teacher’s needs. Bookings can be made online through the website.

http://www.yarravalleywater.com.au
For information, resources and education programs. The annual water quality reports on this website provide a lot of information, including the various parameters used to test water quality and actual test results.

http://www.southernbiological.com
A wide variety of useful equipment and other relevant resources is available, including EasyView slides, special microscope slides that simply need a few drops of pond water added to them. These are shipped anywhere in Australia.