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Water in your Home

The pipes inside your home are:
in the closet
in the ceiling
inside the walls
none of the above

There are pipes in every wall of your home where:
there is a sink, shower, bathtub or appliance that uses water
there is a bedroom
there is a supporting beam
food is prepared

In order to get warm or hot water in your sink at home,
water must first pass through:

the warm water pipe in the street
the water cooler
the water heater
the furnace

In each sink or bathtub in your home, how many pipes are there?
five
three
one
four

After water goes down the drain in your home, where does it go?
out into the yard
into the ocean
into sewer pipes and to a sewage treatment plant or water reclamation plant
into sewer pipes and out to the storm drain

In Irvine, where does used water go for treatment when it goes down your drain?
To the County Sanitation District
To the Diemer Filtration Plant
To the Irvine Sewage Treatment Plant
To the Michelson Water Reclamation Plant

At a reclamation plant, dirty water is cleaned up so it can be:
sent back into houses again
put into the ocean
used again for things like watering golf courses and parks
used to raise fish

In Irvine, we use reclaimed water for:
watering golf courses
watering parks
watering school playgrounds and athletic fields
all of the above

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