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Why is wasting water in school like this?
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26-05-11 Andrea

People in school waste water, but there it is on different situations. We asked people and 14% said the toilets waste a lot of water, 11% said they didnt know about the problem and 14% said that cleaners dont know how to save water. 28%, that was the majority said that because of people leaving the taps open, 17% becuase thay played with the bebederos and 16% said that was on the fields when people were putting water on the fields. But other people say that they think wasting water dont exist because water always goes to a cycle. So they say, that the water will never end because it will always be recicled. And there is also the kind of people who simply dont care, they talk as the theme as if it was something indifferent. They say that better leave the problem for later, but their "later" will be vary late to start to do something.

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Isabella Odarba 23-05-11 =People in primary said on a survey that this problem was like this because:= 14%= The toilets waste a lot of water 11%=People dont know about the problem 14%= Cleaners dont know how to save it so they waste it 28%=Because people let taps open 17%=Because people play with bebederos 16%= People waste washing fields

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19-05-11 Andrea:

This might be a dumb question but I just never understood how someone can waste water. I have always been told to turn the water off when brushing my teeth take shorter showers and etc. but why? I mean doesnt that water just go back to the river/lake. The water doesn't just disappear its still in our environment right? I am pretty sure I am missing something but I don't know what that is so I would like you guys to explain this to me. Thanks

Your right in the fact that water can never truly be "wasted" because it is cycled through our atmosphere. However, in regards to water conservation , it is important to be mindful for several reasons. Firstly, though there is a lot of water on this planet, only a tiny percentage, less than 1%, is freshwater and therefore usable by humans without undergoing the energy intensive process of desalinization. Most of the water we get comes from dams/reservoirs that go to treatment facilities and eventually our house. So if you are needlessly using water, it goes down your drain, to a treatment facility, then back to your home. The actual process of moving all that water requires energy, so in that sense it wastes energy by being pumped around. Also, many people pay water bills based on how much water used, so if you are paying for something that is not being used, it is considered "wasting". Most of the time, if used water from your house is not cycled back to the main system, it is filtered and allowed to run to the ocean. This is itself is not a big deal in itself, but it means that the overall supply of water is being depleted from the dam/reservoir. Therefore, in times of drought, when not much water is available from snow pack and the reservoir is low, water can be wasted because it is in high demand and not being used efficiently. [] (This is linked because it says like that they think that wasting water dont exist and also it talks about water conservation)

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19-05-11 Andrea:

People think that water is reused after a treatment, so they think that it does not matter to waste, because the water will come back as clean fresh water. But the reality is that the water goes to a waterwaste treatment plan but was water dont get treated to high enough standards for that to be possible. So it makes this, an imposible action.

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15-05-11 Andrea:

Because people dont care about the water because they have seen the the earth is mostly mater than ground. But they dont have into account that there are millions of people. And a lot of the water in earth is in the sea, ice, or is very polluted. Only 0.5% of the water in the world is available for drinking. Another reason for people dont taking care, is that they are too lazy to do something, they want to let the problem to the future. They think, "well, im going to be dead were there are problems, so why do i have to take care". But let me answer that, because your kids will suffer/die because they need to drink water!! But actually by 2025 1.8 billion people will live in countries that are in need of water. Also every minute, 105 people are borned, and every minute there is less water. So if we keep like this, there will be a moment when this gets to 0. But people dont have enough general culture, to realize this problem. But we as a school have to do at least something to help, becuase every thing makes a diferent.

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Carolina Gutierrez 11.5.11

What is the cause of wasting of water? The cause is us the humans, we don’t thing that each time we consume or use water we waste a lot of water, but is not just when we use it is the way people use it. They are not conscience of how much water they use, 1.100 million people in the world are affect of not having so much potable water, and each time more. More Less in the world 20.000 to 30.000 people die at a year because they don’t have potable water or water. Apart of not having a good use of water we polluted the water, each day there are more people and less water. So what water will it be on the future, nothing. We need to help the world not just the other people also for you without water we cannot live, there are solutions but people don’t take care of what it will happen. Don’t have conscience, we need to help the world having a good use of it and not using it for thing that are not necessary. so thats why we need to help in the school. Scientists said that water can finish in any moment, they had stimate the date and it will finish in 2070 to 2080 if humans continue wasting and polluting water, we need to resolve this problem. 

Andres 24.05.11

The problem of wasting water is like this because people at school and at the world think that global warming is a problem much important than wasting water. But not, wasting water at school is much important than global warming. I am not saing that global warming is not a problem, but I am saing that wasting water at school is a very big problem, that we need to worry about. The water give us live and if we don t have water we died. Only 1% of water is drinkable water. Wasting water at school is like this, because also people like student, teacher, cleaners and so on think that the water is not going to finish at school. Think that this is not a problem and that the drougth have alot of water, and is not going to finish. IF WE DON T FINISH THIS PROBLEM THE WATER AT SCHOOL IS GOING TO FINISH.

= Previous Knowledge = 27-05-11 Andrea: People dont care about the water because people have seen that earth is mostlywater than ground. But they dont have into account that there are millions of people. And that a lot of the water in earth is in the seen, or is very polluted. Also because they are lazy to do something about wasting water.

Isabella Odarba

i think that this problem is like this because people dont know about the problem because i think that if people dont have concience of the problem they wont know the solutions that can be made so i think that people waste water because of that. I thhink that they take long showers, that they use the toilet as a trash can that they play with water at the bebederos because of that, and i think that people also waste water because they think thay need certain amount to use, but that amount is not what they need, is what they want so i think that they are using the amount of water that they want and not the amount that they need.Now, if we could make people concience, by talking abou the ccb community wasting water i think that we could make them think more about what is the problem anh which amall but significant actions they could do, i think it is the best we could do for a small action.