Quarky Explores Singapore
How do you drink the rain?
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The story
Singapore is small and has almost no rivers, so Quarky follows a raindrop instead. It runs off roofs and roads into drains, into reservoirs, through filters and cleaning steps, and comes back out of a tap. The whole island is built to catch its own water.
What you'll learn
- Water can be collected, cleaned and used again and again.
- Singapore catches rain across most of the island and stores it in reservoirs.
- Filtering and treating water removes the tiny things that could make you sick.
- Quarky takeaway: when a resource is scarce, you get clever about not wasting a drop.
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