Take a cup of dirty water and get a little funnel. Take a medium sized paper towel and stuff the paper towel into the funnel as best you can. Place a cotton ball the size of a ping pong ball into the funnel with the paper towel. Pour some diatomaceous earth into the funnel on top of all the other stuff. Put a net underneath the funnel to trap all the leftover stuff like dirt or styrofoam. Then pour the dirty water into the funnel and let it drip into a clean cup. Do it over and over again and you will have clean water.

By Sam G.

This is what you need to clean dirty water: paper towels, a funnel, cotton balls, and a net. To begin, pour the water in the funnel which has a paper towel in it to get the dirt and styrofoam out. Then throw away the paper towel with the dirt and styrofoam. Then put a new paper towel into the funnel along with this white stuff called diatomaceous earth and pour the water through again. The time, the water will be cleaner and you will not see the dirt in the paper towel or the white stuff. Finally, pour the water trhough the funnel with a paper towel and cotton balls. The cotton balls will soak up the oil and the red stuff.

By Zach J.

Hi. My name is polluted water. I want to tell you about my life. I started as a clear pond. Then as the years went by, I was mistreated with wrappers and trash. Then the community decided on draining me. It was like being born all over again. I got cleaned once again. Then today, I came out of the sink at G.A. in Mr. Newberger's class. He was teaching a lesson on pollution. The kids went to work on polluting me and then they cleaned me. They had a contest to see who could make the water the cleanest. It took about 30 minutes and two girls by the names of Heather and Mary won. Then there was clean-up. They drained me again and now my name is just plain water

By Annie M.

In science class, we tried to make really dirty water clean. This is how Michele and I made our water clean. We took the funnel and put a paper towel in it and strained the water through the towel. To get out the red vinegar, we used cotton balls and soaked it in the water. We got out the dirt by using a strainer. It was very easy to get the styrofoam out. We picked it out with our hands. The cleaning powder also helped a lot. Our water was voted the cleanest in the entire class. I was very suprised that we got our water that clean. The hardest thing to get out was the red vinegar. It was easy to get the dirt out.

By Alexandra C.