=====Water Quality Report Interpretation Exercise=====

==== Author Information ====



* **Name:** Melanie Vines, Sarah Ortbal

* **Position:** Graduate Research Assistant/Ph.D. Student, Undergraduate Research Assistant/Accelerated Masters Program Scholar, The University of Alabama

* **Contact:** mgvines@crimson.ua.edu, skortbal@crimson.ua.edu

* **Year contributed:**  


==== Categories ====

  * **Grade Level:** 6–9
  * **Alabama Course of Study:** MATH.6.23.a–b, MATH.6.24, MATH.8.18

==== Abstract ====

The lesson introduces students to drinking water treatment and disinfection byproducts. They will use annual water quality reports to gather, plot, and interpret real-world scientific data. This lesson correlates to the research on the mitigation of disinfection byproducts in our collegiate research lab and the broader implications for drinking water treatmentand public health.

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