Kids' stuff

Be smart with your water use outdoors. Use water but don't waste it.

Carrots are fun to grow and are usually ready to eat in 50 days.

See how a broad bean seed transforms into a bean in four weeks.

Find out how you you can help your household to become waterwise.

This map shows you where your water comes from and how it's stored and protected before it continues its journey to you. 

Before you fill your water bottle or wash your hands, the water you use will have been treated by one of Auckland's 15 water treatment plants. Download the Waikato Water Treatment Plant poster and also take a look at how we treat your water and see the process in action.

Hydro-electric dams are used to create energy, while our water storage dams exist to store water. Find out more about their differences. 

With no real beginning or end, water makes its way to us, through us and around us every day - stopping to share a moment. Water is a traveller, but never takes a holiday.  

Ever wondered why liquid and ice come from the sky? Have a look at our water cycle cut and paste activity and see if you can work out the various stages along the way. If you’re finding some of the labels difficult to place, have a look at our water cycle poster for assistance.

The labels at the bottom of the sheet follow the same order as our English version.
Ever wondered why liquid and ice come from the sky? Have a look at our water cycle cut and paste activity and see if you can work out the various stages along the way. If you’re finding some of the labels difficult to place, have a look at our water cycle poster for assistance.

Take a look a closer look at Ardmore Water Treatment Plant.

Take a look at our Redoubt Road site. It currently has two large reservoirs that hold 120 million litres of water. The addition of a third reservoir, will take total storage to 165 million litres.

Over the next 30 years we'll plant millions of native trees to help regenerate the land.

Each year, we trap native adult eels and release them downstream so they can journey to the Pacific. So, what about the juvenile eels?

Take a look a closer look at Auckland's largest wastewater treatment plant. 

From UV disinfection to filtration, take the challenge to see if you can label each of the liquid treatment processes correctly.

And how it is treated afterwards is super important for the health of our communities and our environment. This process is really interesting, involving lots of clever people and technology to make sure our wastewater is clean enough to continue its journey in the cycle. You can find even more about the process here.

Find out what bird specifies migrate to our Coastal Walkway each year.

Find out what is attracting native shorebirds back to our Coast Walkway and Māngere. 

Challenge your friends to the Drips and Rainbows game - ride the rainbow to the top, but beware of the falling drips!

Like us, fish, animals and birds rely on clean water to survive too. Find out about some of the things that are harming our world's waterways.

So here are more facts to help you understand some of the issues and why it's important to be a Water Guardian for your waterways. 

This and other interesting water facts to download, learn about and share. 

Another 20 interesting things you didn't know about water, until now.

'Conservation' might seem like a big word, but it means doing small things to look after what we already have, so that we can continue to enjoy it. With water, conservation is easy when you master these tips and tricks. You can find out more here too.

And learn some water-wise tips along the way.

Do you want more than a colouring activity? Well, we've got just the thing.

Click the download button below, then look closely at the two sheets - 'wasting water' and 'conserving water'. Can you find the things Sam and his family are doing to save water and the things they could do to improve their water savings? Flo, the water drop, has hidden herself in the illustrations. Can you find the places she has visited? Don't look at the third page - which has all the answers - until you're done.