Shobhit Chauhan

Young environment and activist has shown a path…

Shobhit Chauhan, 22,is a social activist and environment activist has been instrumental in bringing many positive changes in the society. One of such work under the banner of Ek Sangarsh, an NGO created with his school friends to work for the society.

One big issue is reviving and developing water bodies in Dwarka. This can be a very good solution to solve this crisis of water scarcity. The group is able to revive two water bodies in Dwarka with the help of community participation and is working for the other water bodies.

A Big thanks to all such wonderful young citizens.

Source:HT September 13,2014.

During lunch time it was observed that a pipe was leaking near the scating ring causing wastage of water. It was immediately brought to the notice of school authority and the leakage was stopped. 

Thanks to the conscious students and sincere helpers.

                                               DIGNITY HOUSE

Sharing self clicked pics with the house brigades

All the students of class X B presented a group activity in the class. one of such group is sharing the pictures clicked by their own group members in their their house and locality
I am sure that all of you will appreciate our efforts which will be a small initiative from our side on save water

An article to share with the readers

From toilet to tap: How California fight drought

California’s historic drought is forcing residents of Golden state to take a new look at “toilets to tap water” reuse or, as they prefer to call it in Fountain Valley,” showers to flowers”.

This is the third year of drought in the American west. By the end of July, more than half of California was suffering the worst category of “exceptional drought”. The state has made it illegal to operate a fountain, punishable to $500.the sources of supply are literally drying up. The main source of water- snow melt from the Sierra Nevada, imported water from the Colorado river and ground water-all are in decline.

Only alternative- The Fountain Valley recycles 70 million gallons of water every day, turning waste water- from dish washer, showers, washing machines, and toilets into drinking water. The water gets through three stages of purification filtration through a series of tiny straws to remove bacteria, reverse osmosis to remove dissolved chemical and exposure to ultra violent light with hydrogen peroxide By the time it leaves the plant, it is distilled water.

One of the first attempt to water recycling collapsed of what water manager call the yuck factor. But now the attitudes are changing.

Can we accept such a step from toilets to tap? In a conservative society, such as ours, do you think people would be ready to accept such a method? I think not. So what are our options?

Please leave in your valuable suggestions on alternative water recycling methods in the comment box and let us know what you think.

                                                                 House In-charge  Seema Agarwal

Encouragement for house brigades

It was very encouraging today to meet young house brigades of class VI and VII in school. All of them participated in designing, planning and executing number of activities to persuade save water project for this academic year. Their enthusiasm and sincerity was praiseworthy and remarkable.

I would like to share their names with you.

Paakhi Sharma VI D, Yatharth Gadekar VI-E,Rohan Arora and Shubh Sharma VI-H,Vaibhav Gupta VI-G under the guidance of Ms. Madhu Malhotra English teacher.

Tanya Dhingra VII-C,V Kalyani VII-A,Parul Mehra VII-B and Akshobhya VII-D under the guidance of Ms. Ritambra Hindi teacher.

TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERNCE AND BRING A VISIBLE CHANGE

House in charge  ( Seema Agarwal)

           PRECIOUS WATER FLOWS LIKE MONEY OUT OF ATMs

-Water at the click of a button-

NEW DELHI: Despite being the national capital, several areas in Delhi don’t have access to clean, drinking water. Dependence on water tankers of Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has become a way of life for hundreds of residents in several areas that are either at tail end of distribution or are not at all connected to water supply lines.
 

Savda Ghevra – a dusty resettlement colony in North West Delhi – is a home to a new experiment in water distribution, the water ATMs. Residents of Savda Ghevra have 15 tall, cylindrical, concrete water dispensing, machines in their colony that run on power from solar panels. These machines have changed the way of life for many families.

Now, all they have to do is swipe their ATM card through one such machine and draw water at just 30 paise per litre. “Whenever I need drinking water, my 8 year old son takes the smart card and fills the bottle from the ATM,” says Geeta, s resident.

People carrying water bottles and buckets in on hand and the smart card in the other is a common sight in Savda Ghevra.

The ATMs have been installed by Sarvajal, an Ahmedabad - based social enterprise, in each partnership with DJB. Each ATM has a small screen, which shows details such as the amount of water withdrawn ad the balance amount in the card.

The card costs Rs.100, of which Rs.50 is one time fee. The card can be recharged with a minimum of Rs.50 at Sarvajal’s water purification plant in the colony, which services the ATMs. Nearly 1000 residents have got water ATM cards and the total consumption of water from all the 15 ATMs is roughly about 3000 litres each. Each water ATM holds a maximum of 500 litres.

“We are working with the community to make them understand the value of affordable drinking water,” says Sharma.

A step ahead to water safety…!

Dignity House : Plan of Action

                            

DIGNITY HOUSE PROJECT:Save Water             

                  

House Mantra  -     ‘For Sustainability,  catch them young’

To make the project effective and popular among the students, all activities are designed in such a way that it will generate energy, interest and enthusiasm.

To bring continuity and awareness, the activities in the programme is grouped in three levels for all the classes and time again, competition will be held within the house to keep the spirit going.

ACTIVITIES

Level 1 : Local

1.         Movie making of your own family and friends

·         Negative aspect: Commonly used wrong practices of wasting water like overflow of taps, bathing by shower, wasting water during brushing and so on.

·         Positive aspect: practice of judicious reuse of water like reuse for washing car, cleaning verandah, for watering plants and so on.

2.         Water Awareness Hunt

·         House brigades will prepare a collage from waste materials showing use of water.

·         Rest will find as many flaws as they can from the collage. Collage with minimum flaws will be rewarded.

Level 2 : School - Participation of different stakeholders at school

1.      Design the pledge

·         “To prevent water war, save our water footprints. We pledge ………..”

(Pledge to be designed in meaningful way and must be circulated amongst each other)

Level 3 : Community level

1.        March-past on water conservation in the school and in neighborhood.

·         Circulating self-made bookmarks on save water.

·         Creating self-designed posters/slogans & pasted in areas like water taps, canteen

·         Reciting Slogans during march-past.

                       

House In-charge – Seema Agarwal