

Zon turned on the kitchen tap and watched water rush out. 'Where does this water come from?' he wondered. He pulled down his safety goggles. Click! They glowed bright blue and turned into Zon-oculars! Now he could see through the walls. He saw pipes going deep, deep into the ground. 'Wow! I can see where the water travels!' Zon said excitedly. His amazing water adventure was about to begin!

Through his Zon-oculars, Zon saw raindrops falling into a huge lake called a reservoir. 'That's where it starts!' he cheered. Giant pipes sucked up the water with spinning impellers, like huge fans. Big metal grates caught sticks and leaves. 'It's like a giant spaghetti strainer!' Zon laughed. Then he saw something amazing—dirt particles playing freeze tag, sticking together and sinking down. The water squeezed through sand and charcoal filters. 'Now it's clean!' Zon said.

Zon watched huge pumps push the clean water up, up, up into a tall water tower. 'The tower is like a gravity battery!' he realized. The water rushed down from the tower into pipes that spread like tree roots under his neighborhood. The pipes built up pressure to push water against gravity. 'That's how it climbs up into my house!' Zon exclaimed. He could see the water zooming through the underground maze right to his kitchen!

Zon looked closely at the faucet with his Zon-oculars. Inside was a valve, like a tiny gate. When he twisted the handle, the gate opened wide. Whoosh! The water rushed through. Zon pushed his goggles up and smiled at his glass of water. 'I know your whole journey now,' he told the water. 'From rain to reservoir, through filters and towers, past pumps and pipes, all the way to my tap!' He took a big drink. 'Thanks, water!'