Friday morning we met Isaiah's class for a field trip at the Weber water treatment plant and learned how water comes from the Weber River and is cleaned and chlorinated to come through our pipes. It was fascinating. I never used to think much about water until I read The Ghost Map, a riveting, non-fiction account of the cholera epidemics in London in the 1880s and how they had no idea about water-borne illnesses or contamination. It makes me vitally grateful for chlorination, uv filters, water treatment plants, and healthy clean water coming right to my kitchen sink. Isaiah and Charlotte liked the giant barrels of chemicals, the vast amounts of dials, piping, and stairwells, and staring at the 15-feet-deep bays of water undergoing filtration. It made me nervous, but thankfully there were plenty of guard railings.