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What solutions can we make to resolve the wasting water at school problem?




CAROLINA GUTIERREZ 7.6.11 For our action will be for long time i suggest to say the manage administarator to make a indicator of water that contributes racional use. For this it need to be a goal based in the comsume of the last mounths and mounthly it will compare this goal will the real consume on a mounths. When the real consume at a mounth is greater to the goal the administrative area will need to inform workers, teachers and students and send messages that makes people save water. CAROLINA GUTIERREZ 31.5.11 The urinals that dont use water, use smell. IT will save a lot of water because that urinal dont neeed. it cost $250.000 **Synthesis**

Isabella odarba 22/05/11

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I conclude that the school can have a million solutions that can make a big impact on its economy and that could prevent it from wasting water, for example 2 tanks that could keep water rain, t he school 92 thousand square meters, 31,577 gallons of water fall down during a thunderstorm, with that we could reuse the water by purifiyng it, we wouldnt have to pay for any more water if we reused only some of the water that falls down at the school.Also most public places have a revision for every place where water is managed, why not do it at the school? and also why not install some saving toilets with double button? and a tap with sensor that could waste so much less water? One of the bigger problems at school is the unawareness of the problem, people aerent aware of this situation, we could make such a huge campaign at school at the places that people most waste water, like the toilets where people make unnessesary flushes and at the gym whre the people take long showers that some could waste even 50 gallons, so that people could be aware that the school does waste water and that by simple ways we could resolve it.We could use also some solutions more home-made, i am talking about putting 2 bottles at each toilet tank for that it uses less water, each flush at the school takes 6 litres, some even 10 litres of water, thats tragic when we could use just 4 and even 3 litres for solids and 2 for liquids. One thing at school that its totally incorrect to do is washing floors, pavimented areas, fields and gardens with potable water, this is a great form of waste, a great solution to this problem is to reuse water from the kickchen to use it to wash those areas.

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Isabella Odarba.......LETTER TO ANDRES PEREZ FOR OUR ACTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 31/05/11 Dear Mr. Perez, We are the exhibition group “Wasting Water at Scholl” from 6B. We are in week 6 which is the last phase of our inquiry cycle which is Taking Action. We have investigated about the use of water at school and we are really concerned about the quantity of water wasted at school per day. Each day the school uses 99 cubic meters. Per month the school uses approximately 2970 cubic meters, but the majority of water is taken from the drought getting the school to pay just on the average of 2 million pesos per month. We have been looking at different ways you can save water at school. We found the sensor tap that the Homecenter corona company sells at the price of $589,900 pesos each. This special tap helps saving water because when any one puts their hand the sensor will turn the tap on and when the hand goes it turns off automatically. This will save **10 liters of water per week** depending on how much people use it. Also a very good alternative is the Ganamax double button toilet, 71% of times this is used at school for liquids, and this toilet is sold at Homecenter Corona at the price of $137,900 each. This toilet uses only 4 liters for liquids and 6 for solids, helping to save a large amount of water. Our last but not least option is from the company Soluciones Ecoambientales de Colombia, it is a urinal that incredibly doesn’t use water, and it is even cleaner than the ones that do use it. This urinal uses smell instead of water, it costs $ 250,000 pesos each. These couple of solutions would help in many ways the economy of the school, but most importantly it will help to save our most important vital resource: water. We would like to know what your opinion is about our solutions. Please leave us a reply. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sign that you received this letter: X Andres Perez. Yours truly, Isabella Odarba, Carolina Gutierrez, Andres Llano and Andrea Palacio (Wasting Water at School)

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 * (Never put water down the drain when there may be another use for it such as watering a plant or garden, or cleaning.
 * Repair dripping taps by replacing washers. If your tap is dripping at the rate of one drop per second, you can expect to waste 2,700 gallons per year which will add to the cost of water and sewer utilities, or strain your septic system.
 * Check for toilet tank leaks by adding food colouring to the tank. If the toilet is leaking, colour will appear within 30 minutes. Check the toilet for worn out, corroded or bent parts. Most replacement parts are inexpensive, readily available and easily installed. (Flush as soon as test is done, since food colouring may stain tank.)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Avoid flushing the toilet unnecessarily. Dispose of tissues, insects and other such waste in the rubbish bin rather than the toilet,
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Take shorter showers. Replace you showerhead with an ultra-low-flow version. Some units are available that allow you to cut off the flow without adjusting the water temperature knobs.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Use the minimum amount of water needed for a bath by closing the drain first and filling the bath only 1/3 full. Stopper bath before turning water. The initial burst of cold water can be warmed by adding hot water later.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Don't let water run while shaving or washing your face. Brush your teeth first while waiting for water to get hot, then wash or shave after filling the basin.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Retrofit all wasteful household taps by installing aerators with flow restrictors.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">If the toilet flush handle frequently sticks in the flush position, letting water run constantly, replace or adjust it)
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Home-made solutions for plan B

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> Check all the faucets and plumbing regularly, and fix them as soon as you notice a leak.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> Check all toilet flush tanks for leaks by adding a coring agent to the tank. If you see color streaming down the bowl without flushing, there is a leak. <span class="goog_qs-tidbit goog_qs-tidbit-0" style="font-family: Times New Roman; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Fix the leak immediately to avoid wasting water. The largest consumers of water in schools are the toilets.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> <span class="goog_qs-tidbit goog_qs-tidbit-0" style="font-family: Times New Roman; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Place a plastic container full of pebbles in the flush tank to reduce the amount of water used with each flush. Doing so can save five to 10 gallons a day per tank.
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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> Wash dirty cafeteria dished by hand. Doing so allows you to use much less water than a dish washer.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> Place mulch in and around trees and plants. This slows down evaporation and allows you save 750 to 3000 gallons a month for irrigation.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> Water the school lawns, plants, and trees when the weather is cool and evaporation is very low. Dawn is a good time to water.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> Avoid mowing the school lawns too often. The shorter the school grass, the more evaporation occurs. Instead, when mowing, set the mower blades higher. This helps to keep the grass higher, preventing too much evaporation. This may save your school save 500 to 3000 gallons a month.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> Keep school swimming pools covered when not in use. This helps prevent water from evaporating, and also requires less cleaning than if left exposed to the elements.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> Create flyers and hold classroom awareness discussions on what students can do to help conserve water while at school.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">__[|How to Conserve Water in School | eHow.com]__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">__[] ﻿ ﻿ __

Simple solutions we can do at ccb for a plan B
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> Never put water down the drain when there may be another use for it such as cleaning or watering a plant or garden <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> Repair dripping faucets by replacing washers. If your faucet is dripping at the rate of one drop per second, you can expect to waste 2,700 gallons per year, which will add to the cost of water <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> Avoid flushing the toilet unnecessarily. Dispose of tissues, insects and other such waste in a trash container rather than in the toilet <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> Take shorter showers  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> When washing dishes by hand, fill one sink or basin with soapy water. Quickly rinse under a slow-moving stream from the faucet.

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internet Isabella odarba 1905.11 The school 92 thousand square meters, how much water will fall down on the school during a rain storm? the answer is 31,577 gallons of water, with that we could reuse the water by purifiyng it, we wouldnt have to pay for any more water if we reused only some of the water that falls down at the school, imagine, a long bath at the gym each person takes 50 gallons of water, so by saving that intch of water that fell we could take each student a daily bath for 171 days!

Now, at cali that it is a big city on a rain storm that will fall f 1 inch of water 2.28 billion gallons of water.

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internet carolina Gutierrez 19.5.11 The workers or the cleaners can wash the floors of he classes, office, bathrooms, cafeteria. They can clean the floors and all they need to clen with not potable water because they are cleaning things with potable water. that can be use to drink or things that need potable water.

For the rain water apart of putting the tanks of water we can put gutters. Because yhe water of the rain is not 100% clean so they can take it to the aqueduct or derectly to clen the floors, football fields and other tings that dont need potable water. internet Andres 14.05.11 Hear are some propousals to how to conserve water at home. This proposals can also help in the school.

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( This is related to how some ideas can help wasting water at school) <span style="background: #ff0091; color: teal; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 25px; line-height: 115%;">internet 15-05-11 Andrea:

We can buy some tanks that are special for taking water of the rain. This will be good because we are right now, in a time were there is a lot of rain. So with this tanks and all the water that falls in the rain, will be an excelent. It will not also help with saving water, it will allso be a rather long for the school, because the school will invest money in the tanks, but with the time they will have all the money they earned and even more. This water cant be for drinking, it will be for the football fields and to clean the floor. internet CAROLINA GUTIERRREZ 12.5.11 We can propous to make a maintenance each 4 mounth for beeing sure that the tubes, toilets, sprue, showers are fine, because maybe a tube can broke or can produce a leakage that will waste a lot of water.

<span style="background: #ff0091; color: teal; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 25px; line-height: 115%;">internet Isabella odarba 12/05/11 Saving Water Indoors
 * 1) Never put water down the drain when there may be another use for it such as cleaning or watering a plant or garden.
 * 2) Repair dripping faucets by replacing washers. If your faucet is dripping at the rate of one drop per second, you can expect to waste 2,700 gallons per year, which will add to the cost of water and sewer utilities or strain your septic system.
 * 3) Avoid flushing the toilet unnecessarily. Dispose of tissues, insects and other such waste in a trash container rather than in the toilet.
 * 4) Take shorter showers. Replace your shower head with an ultra low-flow version. Some units are available that allow you to cut off the flow without adjusting the water temperature knobs.
 * 5) Don't let water run while shaving or washing your face..
 * 6) Don't water your street, driveway or sidewalk. Position your sprinklers so that your water lands on the lawn and shrubs…not the paved areas.
 * 7) Install sprinklers that are the most water-efficient for each use. Micro and drip irrigation and soaker hoses are examples of water-efficient methods of irrigation.
 * 8) Check sprinkler systems and timing devices regularly to be sure they are operating properly. It is now the law that "anyone who purchases and installs an automatic lawn-sprinkler system MUST install a rain sensor device or switch which will override the <span class="goog_qs-tidbit-1">irrigation cycle of the sprinkler system when adequate rainfall has occurred. " To retrofit your existing system, contact an irrigation professional for more information..
 * 9) Consider using a commercial car wash that recycles water. If you wash your own car, park on the grass to do so.
 * 10) If you have a swimming pool, consider a new water-saving pool filter. A single backflushing with a traditional filter uses from 180 to 250 gallons, or more
 * 11) . Create an awareness of the need for water conservation among children. Avoid the purchase of recreational water toys that require a constant stream of water.
 * 12) Encourage your employer to promote water conservation at the workplace. Suggest that water conservation be put in the employee orientation manual and training program
 * 13) Conserve water because it is the right thing to do. Don't waste water just because someone else is footing the bill such as when you are staying at a hotel.
 * 14) Try to do one thing each day that will result in a savings of water. Don't worry if it is minimal. Every drop counts. And every person can make a difference.

INTENET CAROLINA GUTIERREZ 10.5.11 For wasting less water, we need to show, tell that water is very important because we cant live with out water. We need to tell students, workers, teachers (everyone). they need to have conscience of not wasting water, that apart of the other solutions also we need the help of all the people. thats why we need to inform the people why water is so important and that we need to save it, we need to invite them to make a good use of the water.

<span style="background: #ff0091; color: teal; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 25px; line-height: 115%;">Internet CAROLINA GUTIERREZ 9.5.11 We can propose to put saving toilets that waste less water (it is connected to LOI #4 because this are the solutions thta will help for noy wasting water) internet 9.5.11 Faucets with sensor with this faucets will be saves 6 liter thats alot they cost 489.900 pesos internet 9.5.11 This tank of water will be use for water rain we will recycle it. when it rains the water will foll in this 5000 tank of water, with the water of the rain we will use it for puting water to the football fields, the trees and plants, for washing the floor of bathrooms, classes, gym, cafeteria, bach and others.



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ANDRES 12.05.11
<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top;">Most water waste is caused by improper landscape. By taking a few simple steps, you can prevent water waste in the school. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top;">1.We can re use the water, and we can<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top;"> use rain water or not drincable water for irrigate tha fields. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top;">2.The PE showers need to be shorters, we can put impact sings in the bathrooms for people take a short shower and don t waste water. Example: sings that said how many people died because don t have water, the world is going to finish if we don t save the water, and like that people can save water. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: top;">3. Also we can put the impacting saings in bathrooms with the help of the school. (This is also ralated, like some proposals that we can make to resolve the problem of the bad use of water at school)

Andres 17.05.11

internet There are numerous ways you can save water. You can purchase water efficient products and install them. This means you can fix and forget. You can install the product, and you don’t have to alter your behavior in anyway. However, there are also things that you can do for free which save water. For a full list of what you can do to save water please check out our __<span style="color: #0e4d82; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Quick Tips] __ section.
 * <span style="color: #ffffff; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">** How to save water? – The tips ** ||

- ** Turn the tap off when you brush your teeth ** – a running tap wastes 6 litres of water a minute. If everyone in the UK who currently leaves the tap running when they brush their teeth turned it off instead – we would save ** 446 million litres ** of water – enough water to supply 2.9 million people for one day – that’s the entire population of Leeds, Birmingham, Glasgow and Sheffield (the UK’s 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th largest cities) for one whole day.

- ** Don’t use your toilet as a dustbin ** – an unnecessary flush uses another cistern full of water. Put your face wipes, cotton wool balls in your dustbin rather than down the toilet. If everyone in the UK who currently uses their toilet as a dustbin, stopped doing this, we would save ** 27 million litres ** of water a week – that’s enough to supply the population of York or Portsmouth for one day.

- ** Use the left over water from your night time drinks to water houseplants ** – this saves new water being poured into the plants and your drink being poured down the plughole.

- ** Invest in a water butt and connect it to your drainpipe in your garden ** - this can then collect some of the 85,000 litres of rainfall that falls on your roof every year. This water can be used to water your garden, clean your car and wash your windows

- ** Install a cistern displacement device in your toilet ** – these can be obtained free of charge from your water company and displaces water in your cistern so that the volume of water in your flush is reduced by between 1 – 3 litres. To see which displacement device you should get please look at our __<span style="color: #0e4d82; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">[|toilet flushing page] __. Please note, that you do not need a cistern displacement device if you have a dual flush toilet. Copy paste from []

=<span style="background-color: #35d8e9; color: #090707; font-size: 100px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**Prior knowledge** = = = =ISABELLA ODARBA= I THINK THAT WE COULD PUT AT THE SCHOOL SOME SIMPLE ACTIONS THAT COULD WASTE MUCH LESS WATER. I THINK WE COULD DO CAMPAIGNS ABOUT NOT WASTING WATER AND MAYBE EVEN IF IT IS TOO EXPENSIVE MAYBE PUT INODOROS THAT CAN SAVE WATER AND THAT STUDENTS WILL LOVE THEM BECAUSE THEY MOSTLY DONT LIKE THE SCHOOL BATHROOMS. I THINK THAT WE COULD MAKE A GREAT ACTION AND THAT WE COULD GET AN A ON THE EXHIBITION WITH THE INODOROS AHORRADORES AND IF THE SCHOOL APROVES IT NOT ONLY IT WILL HELP THE SCHOOL ECONOMY BUT IT WILL HELP THE SCHOOL BY IMPROVING AT NEW TECHNOLOGIES LIKE THIS ONE AND I WILL BE ALMOST SURE THAT THE SCHOOL WILL LOVE IT.