A water education programme is making a big impact on classrooms across the country.
More than 100,000 school pupils have taken part in Scottish Water’s nationwide Generation H2O education programme, with over 1000 schools across the country engaging with the interactive lessons.
Among the participants is Holyrood Secondary in Glasgow, the largest school involved, with more than 2280 pupils.
Alex Plant, chief executive of Scottish Water, said: "There is a quiet but profound revolution taking place in our classrooms in terms of how young people think about our country’s water.
"They increasingly recognise it as a very precious natural resource and growing up in an era when the environment we depend on is under extreme pressure from a changed climate realise that we need to look after it carefully.
"We are excited to see so many teachers downloading the content to engage their pupils on how to be brilliant custodians of our nation’s water – not just now but well into the years ahead.
"The fact that these lessons are being delivered and enjoyed in schools in our biggest cities and our smallest island communities indicates a growing understanding that we can all make a difference."
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The Generation H2O programme launched three years ago and offers downloadable lesson plans on how to care for our water.
To date, 1550 teachers have registered for the programme, reaching 112,000 students of all ages.
Schools across Scotland, from urban centres to remote islands, have taken part.
The smallest registered school is Crawford Primary in Biggar, with just 10 pupils.
Blackness Primary in Dundee has delivered water lessons to every single pupil (340 in total), while the school on the island of Gigha took seven of its 10 pupils through the lesson.
Scottish Water aims to deliver the programme in half of Scotland’s schools by next year, with appetite for the lessons growing every month.
A total of 17% of registered schools are located in deprived areas, and every local authority in Scotland is represented.
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