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