What's in your water?

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

American Public Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

What’s in your water, and how did it get there? Clean water is a must, but modern living can put a lot of bad stuff in it. Road salt, fertilizer, dog doo-doo, heavy metals - how do these things get in our water? Why should we care? And how can we tell if our water is healthy? In this episode we hitch a ride on the water cycle with a pair of water drops. We learn about what caused the Flint water crisis. And we hear about one young girl’s award-winning idea for a faster way to test lead in water - spoiler alert - it involves carbon nanotubes! This is the first in a series of water-related episodes we’re working on over the next few months. We hope it makes a splash with you!

Want to learn if you have a lead pipe carrying water into your home? Check out this helpful link from NPR:

https://apps.npr.org/find-lead-pipes-in-your-home/en/#intro

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0:00.0	You're listening to Brains On, where we're serious about being curious.
0:03.4	Brains On is supported on part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
0:09.9	Are you all set there, Katondoli?
0:11.5	I think I'm good.
0:12.5	Do you need a glass of water or anything?
0:14.8	Whoa, did somebody say water?
0:16.8	I'm about to ride that wicking water cycle again and I am stoked!
0:21.2	Okay, who just said that?
0:22.8	Delta's the name Shredden Waves is the game.
0:25.8	I'm a drop of water, dude.
0:27.9	A talking drop of water.
0:29.8	I should have guessed.
0:30.9	What's up?
0:31.6	Okay, so, you know, like the water cycle?
0:35.2	Sure, sure. We did a whole episode about it.
0:37.3	It's the wildest ride I've ever been on.
0:40.4	I'm super pumped to go through it again.
0:42.8	I've been stuck way under ground at an aquifer forever,
0:46.7	and I cannot wait to freefall from a cloud to the ground.
0:50.2	It's going to be bodacious.
0:52.1	I hope this time I land in the ocean on some killer waves instead of going straight to groundwater.
0:57.5	First, we got to break free from this glass of water by evaporating, though.
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