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When you brush your teeth or help mum with the washing, water appears like magic from the tap. Have you ever wondered where the water comes from or where it goes when it flushes down the sink? If you do some detective work, you'll discover that the water you drink and use for everyday chores is recycled again and again. To find out more about how this recycling process happens, let's pretend you are a drop of water and join Si-Arif, your water friend, on a journey of discovery!


   
2. You tumble down a waterfall into a river that leads to the big wide ocean. Now you are one of the millions of drops of water that make up the vast ocean as far as the eye can see.
1. You start your adventure as a tiny drop of water in a little stream high up in the mountains

  3. When the sun shines it becomes warm and you turn into vapor or steam that rises higher and higher into the blue sky.

     
6. If you end up being the water that helps to clean the dishes, once they are done, you'll rush into the drain and eventually to the big pipes that empties into a river.   4. In the sky, along with other drops of ater vapor you form a floating white cloud. The cloud grows so big and heavy with water drops like yourself, it eventually releases you and your friends as rain that falls back to earth
   
  5. Your journey from here depends where you land. You could end up as a welcomed drink for plants and flowers, Or be swept away into a turbine that makes electricity, Or you could be caught up in a great big dam and stay there until you are piped to a household to wash the dirty dishes or for any other every day use.  


From there, you journey back to the ocean where the sun shines down o'n you and turn you back into the vapor that rises into the sky. Up there you become a part of a cloud and eventually fall as a raindrop on the mountain and into the stream once again. From the mountain stream you rush down into the river and your journey begins allover again in a life cycle that never ends.



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