Bristol Water Foundation

🎨💦 Discover a world of water at your fingertips. Fun water related facts for KS2 and beyond, water saving & early careers. It all starts with education.

[Bristol Water Foundation @Foundation_BW]

We're excited to announce the winners of our water butts for schools competition! DRUMROLL PLEASE🥁

Congratulations to Otter Class at @HeathCadbury 🎉

We loved your round the world theme so much!

https://t.co/EginOqyCQZ

#savewater #education

[Festival of Nature @FestofNature]

And the results are in! What an incredible #CityNatureChallenge across the Bristol & Bath region! 💥

7,971 observations of 1,290 species by 393 observers across four days! ✨

Around the world the challenge recorded a whopping 1.6 million observations, of over 50,000 species! 🦋

[Charborough Road @CharboroughRd]

Six children from #Year5 took part in the @Foundation_BW water butt challenge - to design and paint a water butt that could help save water at our school. With help from Miss Pitt (our @clfscitt student) they designed a four seasons themed piece 🌿☀️🍂❄️

[St Werburgh's Primary @st_werburghs]

The green team have been decorating a water butt to go in to the ‘Reading garden’. Thank you @Foundation_BW

[Bristol Water Foundation @Foundation_BW]

Huge congratulations to our two runners up too!

Here's Puffin Class at @TheDolphinSch looking very pleased with their four seasons water butt and this pretty design from Diamond Class and friends at @newsiblands with handprint flowers.

#watersaving #education #bristolschools

[Bristol Water Foundation @Foundation_BW]

We're excited to announce the winners of our water butts for schools competition! DRUMROLL PLEASE🥁

Congratulations to Otter Class at @HeathCadbury 🎉

We loved your round the world theme so much!

https://t.co/EginOqyCQZ

#savewater #education

[Bristol Water Foundation @Foundation_BW]

Our waterbutt competition closes tomorrow and we've had SO MANY entries!
These two are full of the colours of autumn, from pupils at @kingsforestpri & @SummerhillAcad1- as you can see, it's going to be very hard to pick a winner. 🍂

#waterbuttsforschools #bristolwaterfoundation

[Bristol Water Foundation @Foundation_BW]

We were delighted to host the Duke of Gloucester at our Bristol offices yesterday to celebrate our 175th anniversary and plant the first of 1200 trees we have pledged for the #QueensGreenCanopy

Our first tree is now officially on the @QGCanopy map!

@RoyalFamily

[The Queen's Green Canopy @QGCanopy]

Yesterday The Duke of Gloucester helped commemorate @BristolWater's 175th anniversary with a tree planting, the first of 1200 trees Bristol Water will contribute to The #QueensGreenCanopy 🌳

The #JubileeTree has been added to the QGC Map! ➡️ https://t.co/gTXENbPEfZ

@RoyalFamily

[Bristol Water Foundation @Foundation_BW]

Our water butt competition is well underway! We've got Halloween spook, sunflower & bee friendly, eco and so much more! Thank you to Ashton Gate, Culton, Blaise, and St Joseph & St Teresa Primary Schools for these!

[Bristol Water Foundation @Foundation_BW]

FREE water butt & competition for Primary Schools with prizes to be won! Not a teacher? No worries pass this on to any schools or your kids school as it's a good 'un! 🎨
https://t.co/vZ8pn4yl66

[Bristol Water Foundation @Foundation_BW]

Heading to Chew Valley Lake at some point with young 'uns? Check out our butterfly worksheet to learn about the pretty, fluttery residents of Chew Valley Lake! Did you know butterflies taste with their feet? Glad we can't😲 https://t.co/DaQwCmXKNl

[Bristol Water Foundation @Foundation_BW]

Check these bags out! A delight to support @WestCountry_CS in turning year 6 pupils into crime actors to learn about crime and @CrimestoppersUK - and we've a competition to decorate our bags so they always carry the message around! Read more: https://t.co/4pKEaBX8Ia

[Bristol Water Foundation @Foundation_BW]

OLDER THAN YA GREAT GRANDAD! The water supply turns 175 years old today, so here's 3 FREE history worksheets for kids on the history of water, we've blended in some facts like when the titanic sank to make it really useful stuffs! Download them here: https://t.co/bI4Kb0XZE1

[Bristol Water Foundation @Foundation_BW]

Well well. The majority got it wrong - 15 degrees can cause cold water shock which is probably warmer than you think! Our reservoirs are often at and below this level - just one of the many reasons we should not swim in them!

[Bristol Water Foundation @Foundation_BW]

We shall post the answer tomorrow!

[Bristol Water Foundation @Foundation_BW]

What water temperature can give you cold water shock - where your body freezes up and can't swim?

[Bristol Water Foundation @Foundation_BW]

Cold water shock can happen even on warm days! Read our comic strip here: https://t.co/DaQwCmXKNl @ASPolice @AvonFireRescue @RNLI @BristolLive @SomersetLive

[Bristol Water Foundation @Foundation_BW]

Pupils of Butleigh CoE Primary School now have their names written under the ground for the next 100 years! Today we replaced the water main outside of the school and so we invited the entire school to join us for a lesson in all things water and construction 💧

[Bristol Water Foundation @Foundation_BW]

Lockdown might be easing, but did you know the endangered European Eel has spent the last year swimming from the Sargasso sea over to our Somerset lakes for a little holiday? Download our lifecyle worksheet for KS2 here: https://t.co/DaQwCmXKNl #May17th #Lockdowneasing

[Bristol Waste @BristolWaste]

Another helpful tip from our Community Engagement team! Place a basket, bag or bin near your bathroom to throw your bathroom recyclables into. Having the recycling ‘bin’ close to hand will encourage all the family to use it ♻️ #GetItSorted https://t.co/fNG7nSy4tA

[Bristol Water Foundation @Foundation_BW]

@DumbellLouise @BristolWater You’re most right! Inspired by American navy ships! 🇺🇸

[Bristol Water Foundation @Foundation_BW]

Attentionnn!! ✋ get the kids into water saving with this fun navy shower idea! Shower like a navy Sargent and save 84 litres of water by turning the shower off while lathering up! 🧽 #watersaving #bristol #somerset