Do You Know Where Your Water Has Been?: The Disgusting Story Behind What You're Drinking

by Kelly Barnhill

Are you ready to go behind the scenes of our amazing sanitation system? From the history of toilets to the mystery of tap water, each book reveals what goes on after the flush and after the trash has been taken out. Youll never look at garbage, toilets, and waste the same way again!

2393 pages, Library Binding

First published September 1, 2008

About the author

Kelly Barnhill is an author and teacher. She won the World Fantasy Award for her novella The Unlicensed Magician, a Parents Choice Gold Award for Iron Hearted Violet, the Charlotte Huck Honor for The Girl Who Drank the Moon, and has been a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, the Andre Norton award, and the PEN/USA literary prize. She was also a McKnight Artist's Fellowship recipient in Children's Literature. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her three children and husband. You can chat with her on her blog at www.kellybarnhill.com

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

That was really fun and interesting. Read it to my 6 year old and the vocabulary was a little beyond him and it was a little too long for him - and we read together all the time. So probably somewhere around 8-10 reading level I guess? Either way, I enjoyed it. Gave history too.

[Judy Zingher · Rating 1 out of 5]

Disappointing. And the physical book smelt chemically. For me, chemical contamination is almost worse than the bacterial contamination Barnhill emphasizes.

[Ann Mireles · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy read for kids!

[Sue · Rating 3 out of 5]

this book really should be in the elementary library - not the high school library. it is very fundamental but informative on how we get our water and how it is cleaned. it also has some interesting facts on the history of cleaning water.

[Sonja Isaacson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Minnesota author!

I read this while the girls were taking a shower. Ha!

The 8yo did try to explain about aquaducts so she did read it and picked up something.