Physical Geography Natural and Urban Water Cycles and Papplewick Pumping Station

1. The Natural Water Cycle

Suggestion: Put the following sequence of natural images on a slideshow and run it alongside a water cycle poster…

IT Suggestion: Get your pupils to take photos of different kinds of weather and phenomena that help to illustrate the natural water cycle, and add the images to the above slides… …or use an IT session to source more images on the web…

Literacy Suggestion: Use the images to stimulate vocabulary for poetry mood and emotion, or prose settings and openers… (And relate the work on metaphor in the “I am Water” activity in the English section)

2. The Urban Water Cycle

http://www.tucsonaz.gov/water/cycle

http://sustwatermgmt. wikia http://sustwatermgmt.wikia.com/wiki/Recycled_Water_in_California:_Statutes,_Regulations,_and_Policy_Considerations http://sustwatermgmt.wikia.com/wiki/Recycled_Water_in_California:_Statutes,_Regulations,_and_Policy_Considerations

http://www. blueplanet. nsw. edu http://www.blueplanet.nsw.edu.au/year-7-and-8-natural-and-urban-water-cycles/.aspx

3. Papplewick Pumping Station and the geology of Bunter Sandstone

Robin Macey An aerial view of the pumping station taken from a hot air balloon. Papplewick is situated over Bunter / Sherwood sandstone, which acts like a giant sponge, soaking up, storing and naturally filtering impurities from the water. This sedimentary rock is over 200 million years old and extends over a vast area.

Diagram illustrating the water cycle and function of Papplewick Pumping Station. The pumping station was designed to pull water from the ground, pump it uphill into the reservoir, and then feed it into the public water supply.

Twenty percent of this rock is made up of holes into which rainwater trickles and is stored. When water is removed, for example from a well sunk into the stone, then more water percolates down to replace it. As the water trickles through the stone, most of its impurities are removed. Sandstone

Examples of where you can see sandstone in Nottingham

The sandstone caves in the hill the castle stands on in Nottingham

The Park Tunnel was built in 1855 through the sandstone so that horse drawn carriages could go directly to the Park from Derby Road in Nottingham.

What’s our relationship to the water cycles What’s our relationship to the water cycles?... Today, on average, each person in Nottinghamshire uses about 127 litres of water a day. Our grandparents used just 18 litres. On average, a Kenyan uses just 4 litres a day. A garden sprinkler uses the same amount of water in 1 hour as a family of 4 uses in 2 days. http://www.papplewickpumpingstation.org.uk/water_cycle.html (Links to Geography - Human Distribution - Virtual Water)