ENVIRONMENTAL TALK

Rainwater Harvesting

RAINWATER HARVESTING

Rain = Water. We all know that. But do you know that by saving up these water and using them for other things can help to save our Earth?

Rainwater is collected in an abandoned water tank in our school and use for the following activities:

1. Washing the floor
2. Watering the plants
3. Washing the cars

We are also using up another water tank for these purposes. This new rainwater harvesting tank would be ready to be used when the piping jobs are completed.

For the success of this project, we had great help from our school canteen operator, Mr Sunny.

A summary on projects did by SMK Assunta's Go Green team members.

LAMAN AGRO ASSUNTA.

• Planted lady fingers, maize, eggplant, chillies & long beans.
• Added fertilizer to the plant.
• Loosen the soil.
• Pulled grown weeds.
• Water the plants planted everyday.
• Check the leaves of the plant planted to avoid being eaten by insects.
• Shaped the bed with rafia string.
  

RECYCLING.

• Collected recyclable item or waste from teachers' staff room, koperasi, counseling room.
• Arranged the recyclable item or waste collected neatly at the recycling corner according o categories.
• Sold recyclable item or waste today, 15/4/09 during school hours.

ENERGY AUDIT.

• Advised students to save electric.
• Reading of meter of electricity used will be taken every two periods.
• Working on doing an awareness campaign for the next month (May).
• April's current (2009) electric bill will be compared to last year's (2008) April electric bill.
• Readings of meter will be taken again on June to make sure the awareness month benefits.