Science Experiment #1: Water Quality and Contamination

Today we did an experiment to investigate the effect of contamination from fertiliser on ground  water supplies. We used red jelly crystals to represent the fertiliser; gravel and sand to represent the soil; and tap water to represent rain water. We found that the fertiliser leached quickly into the ground water supply in the aquifer (plastic container).
1. Adding "fertiliser"

 2. Adding "rain water".

 3. Fertiliser has leached through the "soil" into the ground water.