Water
In the Circular Water Economy, the school water system aims to keep resources in use for as long as possible, reduce the usage of water, extract energy value from water while in use, and recover and regenerate disposed water at the end of the water cycle.
The Circular Water Economy optimizes schools' local water resources and extracts valuable resources from water and wastewater, participating schools are better able to understand their water use and identify faults or leaks that may not have been recognized as quickly, or at all.
We improve pupils' attitude towards reducing the usage of water through the 3R Workshops with the topic 3R Water.
The topic water was studied in FEBRUARY 22 - JUNE 22 and in this time we present tools and workshops for students on the topic of reducing, reusing, and recycling water at school or home.
Conclusion about work done on topic Water
We started chapter 3R Water with workshops and lessons on water in different school subjects. After the students got to know the topic we established international teams of students.
In international teams of students during our ZOOM meetings, we established basic rules on how to apply the rules of Circular Economy for reducing, reusing, and recycling water.
Water can be reduced in the following ways:
-Close the tap while brushing your teeth and open it only when necessary. Store the water from the leaking tap or change the tap.
-Don't waste water unnecessarily while bathing, washing clothes, washing dishes, etc.
Water can be reused in the following ways:
-Use the water filtered out for washing floors, windows, toys, and furniture.
-Use the water that you use for washing fruits and vegetables for watering plants.
Water can be recycled in the following ways:
-Purification of dirty water by filtration and various
methods
According to those basic rules students did two types of research:
-first, they did research about local water, water facilities, and water pollution in their local environment
-second research was on how are the principles of Circular Economy implemented in all school`s water systems and presenting the best solutions.
The results of the first research are visible in the reports from each school in this chapter.
The second research compared the consumption of water in all five schools on November 21:
Polish school, 190 m3
Finnish school, 143 m³
German school, 150 m³
Slovenian school, 268 m³
As you can see, German school has the lowest consumption of water per month. In the research, we concluded that this is a result of the well-thought strategy of the German school water system.