Celebrating Bring Your Child to Work Day

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Celebrating Bring Your Child to Work Day

First event at Denver Water since 2019 draws children — and their parents.

Filtering dirt and leaves out of water. Learning how a flood can wash away a carefully constructed community.

Drawing water in all its forms and peering into Denver Water’s innovative water capture and recycling system used both for irrigation and toilet-flushing.

All that — and a tour of the Moffat Treatment Plant — were on the activities schedule on April 27 for the first Bring Your Child to Work Day at Denver Water since 2019.

“We were so excited to host children of our employees this year, especially as this is the first time we’ve had this event since 2019 due to the pandemic,” said Nathan Sassano, Denver Water’s well-being program manager who helped organize the event.

“We think it’s a great way to teach the next generation about the many different jobs we have here at Denver Water. And it’s a great chance for the kids to see where their parents work and to learn about the variety of people and jobs that are needed to deliver clean, safe water to 1.5 million people.”

Here’s a look at some of the activities that took place in 2023:

Four children look at water flowing down a streamtable. — At the streamtable, attendees learned how intense floods and storms can affect communities. Photo credit: Denver Water.

Three girls pour water through a filter — It’s a given that Bring Your Child to Work Day at Denver Water will include making your own filter to clean water of dirt and leaves. Photo credit: Denver Water.

A child uses a marker to draw on a piece of paper. — Drawings of water — in the shape of rivers, lakes, reservoirs, oceans and droplets — lined the walls of the meeting room at the end of Bring Your Child to Work Day at Denver Water. Photo credit: Denver Water.

A scientist shows a group of students a glass of water. — Denver Water’s innovative water capture and recycling system, which reuses water for irrigation and toilet-flushing, drew lots of interest. Photo credit: Denver Water.

Three people look at a computer. — What’s in the water? In this case, microbes that clean water so it can be reused for toilet flushing and irrigation. Photo credit: Denver Water.

A group of kids play a water game by holding a long tube. — Blue marbles rolling down plastic half-pipes helped simulate what Denver Water’s team does every day across 3,000 miles of pipe in our metro Denver service area — deliver clean, safe water to 1.5 million people. Photo credit: Denver Water.