Water Conservation Initiative: Sand Bottle

Do you know that we can actually calculate how much water we used when we flush toilet per use? According to our calculation, we used about 16 litres of water when we flush the toilet.

That is only one time. Lets do some simple math. Let say in SDJ we have 500 students, if average 380 students used toilet once during school day, so 16 L x 385 = 6160 L per student.

Then, let say 200 students used toilet twice, so 16 L x 200 = 3200 L per student.

Then we add up, 6160 L + 3200 L = 9360 L. 9360 L water is used by Jaafarians, just to flush toilet for ONE day. Shall we multiply it for 5 days? For a month? For one year? That is only the toilet water usage. What about the rest?

Obviously we have to do something. We are Dr. H2O after all : )

One of the iniative that we can do is DIY sand bottle trick. It is simple, easy and will help to save water everytime we flush the toilet.

                                 

We use 500 ml mineral water bottle and we put 2 bottles in each tank. So the 1 L water inside the tank will be replaced by the sand bottle, hence we can save water. 

All the Kelab Alam Sekitar's member including us cooperate to make the sand bottle. We collected the mineral water bottle around the school and filled it with sand. 

All the sand bottle, ready to be used. 

By doing this initiative, we hope we can make a difference in conserving water. Remember, water is precious. Love our river

Water Audit: Result

Water audit is a crucial step in order to calculate the water usage per activity at a certain place. Based from the result, we can identify which part of the school that consume a significant amount of water. After that, we can take action accordingly.

We carried out the activity as stated in the previous post. So, we would like to share the result of the water audit.

Actual Water Usage Per Activity 

Based from the result, it is shown that there is a high usage of water consumption at the toilet. For your information, this is an actual water usage per person per activity. It means that a person used 16 L just to flush toilet after being used.

So, obviously we need to take some measures to reduce the water usage. Stay tuned for more water conservation initiatives.

Water Audit in SDJ

As a River Ranger, we have responsibility to educate our friends about the importance of conserving water. So, when we were doing the school water audit, we did it with a group of Form 6 students.

We conducted the water audit from 17 to 20 April. During the whole week, we did a lot of things such as distributing and collecting daily water usage forms from classes. We also calculated the flow rate and the usage of water that students used during recess. We even conducting interviews with the school canteen workers and gardener about their water usage. Even though it is a lot of work, we did have fun. We feel accomplished because we get to share our knowledge about conserving water. 

Calculating water usage during recess. Thank god all the Jaafarians gave full cooperations.

 

Calculating water usage in the garden.

Conducting survey among the school garderner. We asked about the how much time they used to water plants around the school.

Thank you, uncle : )

Listening an explanation from Abang Satesh during their visit to conduct the water audit in SDJ

The best part of our work. We get to eat delicious food : )

After we finished the audit, finalised the form and submitted the result to Kak Radziah, we treat ourselves with the delicious ice kacang at B.Point. Some of us couldn't make it though. Thank you fellow River Rangers to make it happen! 

We also would like to thank the Jaafarians who participated in the school water audit especially students from 1 Tan, 2P3, 3P3, 4SNT, 5SNAT and Pra USG.

Proses Rawatan Air

Jika sebelum ini kami telah berkongsi maklumat mengenai proses rawatan air kumbahan, kali ini kami ingin berkongsi maklumat tentang proses rawatan air untuk dibekalkan ke rumah, kilang dan sebagainya,

Tahukah anda, sumber air utama untuk bekalan air bersih ialah sungai? Air sungai akan disalurkan ke loji rawatan untuk melalui pelbagai proses tapisan, penambahan bahan kimia dan sebagainya sebelum disahkan menepati piawai air bersih untuk disalurkan ke pengguna.

Maka, dapatkah kita bayangkan jika sungai-sungai di Malaysia terus tercemar? Apakah yang bakal terjadi kepada sumber air utama kita? Kemusnahan alam sekitar yang kita sendiri lakukan akan memberi kesan langsung kepada kita juga.

Cintai sungai kita.

Rawatan Air Kumbahan oleh Indah Water

Setiap hari kita menggunakan berliter-liter air untuk kegunaan seharian. Pernahkah kita terfikir ke manakah sisa air yang telah kita gunakan itu pergi? Mari kita tonton video ini. Semoga kita mendapat sesuatu yang bermanfaat

Sewaktu lawatan kami ke loji kumbahan air Indah Water di Skudai, kami telah dibawa ke tangki rawatan air. Air kumbahan yang dikumpul dalam tangki, berbau busuk dan mempunyai banyak benda asing. Kami melihat sendiri bagaimana air tersebut diproses dan dirawat dan hasil akhirnya, air yang disalurkan semula ke sungai tidak berbau dan jernih. Menarik, bukan? 

Tidak semua orang berpeluang menyaksikan proses ini secara live di hadapan mata. Oleh itu, kami ingin berkongsi maklumat kepada semua. Mari kita tonton video proses rawatan air kumbahan.

Tahukah anda, setiap hari pekerja-pekerja di loji Indah Water menghadapi risiko demi memastikan air kumbahan yang diterima dirawat agar boleh disalurkan semula ke sungai? Di sini kami ingin berkongsi maklumat mengenai risiko yang mereka hadapi setiap hari. 

Oleh itu, marilah kita mensyukuri nikmat kurniaan Tuhan yang telah diberikan kepada kita. Hargai air, sayangi sungai kita.