Writing Contest Winners 2020-2021

Honorable Mention, Grades 6-8

Andrew Haigis

Grade 6, McCall Middle School, Winchester
Mrs. Megan Capobianco-Burns, Teacher

Why Your Water Doesn't Taste Bad

So when I got home today, I immediately tried to think of writing ideas for the topic, water works because we do. It felt like hours of me, racking ideas for the project. But all of a sudden, it hit me. What would I write about that fits under, water works because we do? Well, the idea I had thought of was sports.

Earlier, when I was in class, we were talking about all the jobs people had to do in order to make clean drinking water for us. Right then I thought, it was the same thing as a sports team. Well, not the exact same, but they are both working hard to achieve something that they want. For example, in a soccer game, the team's goal is to win the game. But they don't just want to win that one game they want to win every game that they play. It's the same thing with the MWRA. They have multiple people working on specific things to reach their goal. But they don't just want to make clean water for one day, they want to make clean water for as long as they can.

Another thing is that in every sports team they have players that are specifically good at that position. And I'm guessing that in the MWRA they also have people that specialize in their job. And I'm also guessing that someone who is a drinking water treatment operator couldn’t be a wastewater collection operator, and whether or not that's true, it is the same for sports!
I'm just saying, I really doubt Patrick Mahomes could be a wide receiver or anything else other than a quarterback. And that isn't just true for football it is true for almost all sports! Hockey, baseball, soccer, basketball and lots more!

Lastly, I think that all sports teams and all people working at the MWRA have to work together. I don't know if it is as true for MWRA as it is for sports, but in sports for example soccer, if the other team has the ball on your side of the field and just one defender slips up or makes a mistake than the other team has a much better chance of scoring. I don't really know for sure, but I'm thinking that if one person doesn't do something to the water or doesn't add one important chemical, then the whole team hurts. All in all, the MWRA works really hard every day to make clean drinking water for us!

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