Water Pollution Project

WATER POLLUTION PROJECT

Problem: The water in Santa Coloma’s neighborhood locate in Bogota is yellow (because the contamination) some times.

Hypothesis:

1. The water is contaminate because the tanks get contaminated by acid rain.

2. The contaminate water came from the sewers that get contaminate by the chemicals substances and garbage that are in Bogota.

Question:

1. What happen if we don't have water in Santa Coloma?

2. Which is the principal cause of the water pollution in Santa Coloma?

3. Is the water yellow or contaminate because the sewers bring like that to Santa Coloma?

4. Is the water contaminated because the tanks are not clean enough?

5. Is the acid rain affecting the water that is in our neighborhood?

Answers:

A. Angela Hernandez (math teacher):

1. The residents can’t do their daily activities like wash the clothes; take a bath, etc…

2. Us, the humans.

3. Maybe.

4. Yes.

5. Yes, a lot.

B. Fernando Ardila (Spanish teacher):

1. The residents can’t take a shower and clean the house.   

2.  The humans and the many types of contamination.

3.  Yes.

4.  Is possible.

5.  Maybe.

C. Felipe Rodriguez (student of 10 th grade):

1. That we have many problems because the water is very important for the daily live of the living things.

2. Because the acid rain and because the sewers are ugly.

3. It could be or it can be that the water is getting pollute in the neighborhood.

4. Yes if the tanks are not covered in the top part.

5. In could be because the acid rain too.

D. Ciro Rodríguez (Surgery doctor):

1. That we can't take a shower, we can prepare the food and the neighborhood will smell bad because we can't throw away the wastes of the bathroom.

2. That they don't clean the tanks in which the water is and the ugly sewers.

3. Yes.

4. Yes.

5. Yes if the tanks are not covered in the top part.

E. Ana Maria Morales (microbiologyst):

1.The residents will have a sanitary emergency.

2. That the people aren’t clean.

3. Yes.

4. Maybe.

5. Yes.