• Question: How dose a river start? and How clean is Scotland water?

    Asked by anon-190692 to Maia, Lyndsay, Dionne, Brendan on 8 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Dionne Turnbull

      Dionne Turnbull answered on 8 Nov 2018:

      Rivers can start when an underground spring releases water, or maybe rainfall or snowmelt from up high on a mountain… it often starts as a tiny trickle, but as it travels down it collects more and more water from the land and gets bigger and bigger!

      I’ve read that our drinking water here in Scotland is one of the highest quality in the whole world! Hopefully the water experts can help you out a bit more with this question 🙂

    • Photo: Brendan Marrinan

      Brendan Marrinan answered on 8 Nov 2018:

      Water flows downhill. Generally rivers starts by lots of small streams from hills, in Scotland you’ll see rivers on the hills and mountain sides that only have water in them after it’s rained, these streams will all flow downhill and join up to form larger streams and then rivers (if you imagine a tree, all of the branches and twigs are small streams and the trunk is the river, this is called the river catchment). Scotland Water is known for being particularly clean because there isn’t so much to make it dirty, fewer factories and industry polluting it.

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