This document summarizes a student project on water conservation. It describes activities conducted by Grade 5 students including: brainstorming reasons for conserving water, distributing timelines to team members, showing presentations on water conservation, holding discussions on water-related topics, providing water to devotees at a religious festival, sending articles to newspapers, creating bulletin boards and messages at water points, conducting research online and in the library, surveying water usage in the school and neighborhood, holding an awareness rally, and visiting a dam and water purification plant. The students created a brochure with water facts and findings that was released during a school assembly to disseminate their work.

1. Every Drop Counts
A project by Grade V students of
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Thrissur

2. Shared with school communities through

3. "In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his
most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has
become the victim of his indifference."
A public awakening is the eye opener to save water for the future.

4. The Project Leaders
Teacher and Guide

5. Project Launch
 Project Introduction in the assembly
 Brainstorming session in class on ‘Why is water a
precious liquid’
 Distribution of list of activities and time lines to
team members

6. You can see it and download it at
http://www.slideshare.net/carlosremontti/thirst-presentation-583044
We also showed our class this awesome presentation.

7. We had discussions on a variety of topics
 Rainwater harvesting
 Myths and rituals connected with water
 Is conservation in our heart??
 Dams and multipurpose river valley projects

8. Did some community service
The local police helped us get fresh water to give to the people and the public were grateful for this
good act of providing the thirsty with fresh cool water.
It is hot and sultry in Thrissur. Our team of water savers spread
the message of water conservation among the devotees who came
for the fair and Kavadi in connection with Shivarathri on Feb
23rd.
All this, while serving thousands of thirsty devotees
clean and cool drinking water

9. We sent in articles to newspapers and
magazines
With tips on conserving water
And the steps we are taking in
our school

10. Morning Assembly Mime
And a pledge to conserve water

11. Bulletin boards

12. Messages at water points
NEVER FORGET TO CLOSE THE TAP ONCE YOU ARE DONE
REPORT ANY LEAKS at the water points and toilets
OPEN THE TAPS SLOW so that you use just the right amount of water
Don't let water run while washing your hands or face.
USE THE AQUA GUARD PROPERLY. Read the instructions
well before using it, to avoid wastage of water.
USE THE WATER IN THE COOLER ONLY FOR DRINKING.
Avoid washing hands or tiffin boxes here.
. If you find THE OVERHEAD TANK OVERFLOWING,REPORT to the incharge IMMEDIATELY.

13. News scan
 Our group collected news related to water from various newspapers.
 We prepared a Water News Scan brochure
 It was presented in the exhibition and is now a part of our resource room.

14. Library research
With the help of Mr.Rajanish, our librarian sir, and our teacher Mrs.K.P.Suma, we selected
books on the topic "Water".Sir guided us to find out reference material from the encyclopedia
using the Index. He gave us many books -My reference library on ecology, Our watery world.
ocean life, water for life etc. He also gave us the magic school bus CD on water. We are finding
all this very interesting.

15. Online research
Scores of countries are overpumping aquifers as they struggle to satisfy their growing
water needs. More than half the world’s people live in countries where water tables are
falling.
In India, water shortages are particularly serious simply because the margin between
actual food consumption and survival is so precarious.
And what we learnt….

16. What we learnt…
 In a survey of India’s water situation, Fred Pearce reported in New Scientist that the 21
million wells drilled are lowering water tables in most of the country.
 In North Gujarat, the water table is falling by 6 meters (20 feet) per year.
 In Tamil Nadu, wells are going dry almost everywhere and falling water tables have dried
up 95 percent of the wells owned by small farmers, reducing the irrigated area in the state by
half over the last decade.

17. We surveyed the water points in our school
 The taps and flushes
 Whether they worked?
 Were they leaking?

18. The school management takes immediate
action
 After a week we surveyed the water points
again and what did we find????
 That all the leaks were set right.
 The flush changed in 2 toilets.
 The cooler was back in working condition

19. We surveyed water use in our
neighbourhood
And found that most of the water is used in the bath and toilets and the least for
drinking

20. Awareness rally in the neighbourhood
I interviewed a neighbour who has been staying in this locality for many
years. I asked her about the source and availability of water in the locality.
10 years ago she didn't even dream that there will be shortage of water in this
locality. They had to dig only 10ft. to get good water. But last year they had
to deepen their well to get water.
She said that after the flats have come up people are digging only borewells to
save space and they make it very deep. So the water level in the area has gone
down.
Even the quality of water has gone down it not that tasty as it used to be.
Ann E

21. Guest lecture on National Science Day

22. And a visit to Peechi dam and water
purification plant
It was amazing to know the long process water undergoes from the Peechi dam to make it
safe for drinking at our homes. We understood that it is real national waste to waste such
precious water.

23. A holiday in Dubai gave me some
amazing insights…
Underground drip irrigation tubes
that use recycled water for greening
the city

24. Creative hands and minds
On MS Paint
Model of the Peechi
Dam

25. Water conservation efforts in our school

26. Our brochure, with many interesting facts and
figures on water, was released during the school
assembly

27. We disseminated our work and findings to
our friends in school

28. And to parents

29. Let us think and act together
Let us make Every Drop Count