Tales of a Water Drop: From Source to Stream
Do You Know Where Your Drinking Water Comes From?
Tales of a Water Drop: From Source to Stream follows the adventures of the Drop Squad: Splash, Ripple, and Plop as they journey from watersheds to your tap and back out to nature to start the cycle all over again.
Splash, Ripple & Plop
Follow Splash, Ripple and Plop as they flow through:
Albany, New York
Albany, New York (Spanish)
Buffalo, New York
Ithaca, New York
New York City, New York
Saratoga Springs, New York
Troy, New York
Watervliet, New York
Albany, New York
Albany, New York (Spanish)
Buffalo, New York
Most of Buffalo’s water comes from Lake Erie. It’s drawn in at the Colonel Ward Water Treatment Plant, where it’s filtered, disinfected, and pumped through miles of pipes to homes, schools, and businesses across the city.
Buffalo produces about 70 million gallons of clean water every day. After use, wastewater travels to the Bird Island Wastewater Treatment Plant, where it’s carefully cleaned before returning safely to the Niagara River.
Ithaca, New York
Saratoga Springs, New York
New York City, New York
Most of NYC’s water is so pure from its Catskill–Delaware Watersheds, it doesn’t need a filter, just a gentle bath in ultraviolet light to stay safe. About 10% of the city’s water is treated through the Croton Water Filtration Plant in the Bronx.
NYC has 14 wastewater treatment plants, cleaning about 1.4 billion gallons of flow per day. The largest is the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, located on the Brooklyn–Queens border.
Troy, New York
Watervliet, New York
Celebrate Your City’s Water!
Bring Tales of a Water Drop to your community. Each mini-book is printed on a single sheet of paper—fold, cut, and read!
Every city has a water story—and public servants who help make it possible.
Don’t see your city? Email us to create a Tales of a Water Drop mini-book for your community.
Designed for classrooms and communities everywhere.
Special shout out to Joshua Golter of www.SpanishMadeEasy.net. Making my dreams come true—cross-pollinating miniatures, books and accessibility!
