In honor of Drinking Water Week, we're sharing resources for schools, teachers and children. Healthy water is important to everyone, especially for children as they are still growing and learning, and Michigan’s children spent a significant portion of their day in school or childcare facilities. Many of these facilities receive their water from a public water supply.

The School Drinking Water Program, within EGLE, works with schools and childcare facilities to monitor water quality. 

Have questions? Learn more by reading our School Drinking Water Quality: Parent Information FAQ Document
¿Preguntas? Calidad del agua potable en las escuelas: Información para los padres. Preguntas frecuentes

جودة مياه الشرب في المدرسة: معلومات للآباء. الأسئلة الشائعة المتكررة

Teachers and educators

Visit Environmental Lending Station to borrow, free of charge, EnviroScape models and other resources, like "Awesome Aquifer" models, for hands-on demonstrations with your students. These items can allow students to see how contamination impacts groundwater, surface water, watersheds and the Great Lakes. Watch the following demos to understand how they can be used: 

• Drinking Water and Wastewater EnviroScape model demonstration. This interactive model helps show how water makes its way from surface water and groundwater to the water treatment plant and ultimately to homes, and now includes a Pharmaceutical, Chemicals, and Water Quality Kit expansion to increase awareness of water and land contamination. 
• Groundwater model demonstration. This model can show how contamination can impact drinking water.

MDHHS Drinking Water Youth Activity Bags are an educational resource designed to help children understand how drinking water moves through our environment – from lakes, rivers, and groundwater to our homes. Each bag includes an activity book, colored pencils, a bracelet-making activity, highlighter, bookmark, and sticker sheet. Two versions are available: grades K-2 and grades 3-5.

Great Lakes Literacy education exploration, or GLLee, opportunities are an introductory collection of resources and partners assembled in three easy steps to help teachers and youth explore Great Lakes Literacy through place-based education and stewardship opportunities in your school and community!