Getting Hands Wet to Keep an Eye on Quality.

 

Getting wet hands to keep an eye on high schools, community groups benefit from water testing.

HERE in Singapore, where water comes out of a tap drinking instantly, it is easy to take it easy. But schools and community groups have taken steps to recognize the status of raw water, which can be treated here by making their hands wet - they go outside to fetch water samples from urban canals, streams, and rivers for testing. For school teams, water testing is a hands-on activity, a science or geography course taken out. In community organizations such as the Waterways Watch Society (WWS), monitoring water quality integration with the aim of educating the public about keeping waterways clean. Last year, WWS promised to teach water testing in schools and corporate groups, as well as its regular cleaning and workshops, and attracted the interest of 15 people schools.

Pastor of Singapore Polytechnic.

Kwok Chen-Ko, 36, started teaching his students in chemical and life sciences. Unique also runs school team classes. To date, seven primary and secondary schools and 30 colleges and colleges teachers have taken from him the basics of measuring water properties such as acidity and water clarity. Schools are encouraged that they do not need high-quality equipment to do this, he said. They are driven by the growing awareness that simply collecting garbage and cleaning up river banks is not enough to keep high-quality water.

Water Quality Monitoring In Schools.

Some schools have taken steps to monitor water quality: In May, the Fairfield Methodist Secondary School team will use their water testing skills during a trip to Cambodia, where they have the long-term task of building a simple water purification solution for rural people. . The Singapore Chinese Girls' School, on the other hand, has a water-related project at home - monitoring water quality in the Dunearn Road canal near their school. With the help of the national water organization PUB, Singapore Polytechnic, and WWS, they will collect data on the amount of dissolved, essential oxygen to maintain marine life; Dirt, the ratio of solid organisms and durability indicating impurities; and Acidity or pH level, an indication of acid rain in this area. WWS, which oversees the Singapore River and Kallang Basin for five years checks water annually, in partnership with the Environmental Engineering Society of Singapore and PUB; this increased to weekly peaks last year. WS chairman Eugene Heng, 60, said monitoring water quality gives the public a sense of how their message against water pollution reaches the community. The water testing organization here is still young, he commented, lamenting: "I think people will understand the value of something like water only if they don't have easy, cheap access to it." Mr. Kwok of Singapore Polytechnic noted in his blog Water Quality in Singapore (water quality in Singapore. Blogspot.com) that more national care and public finances are now flowing to wastewater treatment rather than monitoring water quality. He believes in monitoring water quality as important as water treatment or the recycling of wastewater to ensure that clean water is provided to the country and requires more research to find better ways to monitor. PUB and National Environment The agency has its own water level monitoring schemes, but do not involve volunteers or students in these testing programs. Community groups want many people who will take ownership of the water level here to hope to change this. In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency has a national monitoring program for volunteers and provides guidelines for those who are willing to undergo water tests. 

Mr. Kwok said: "He hoped the structures here would lead the community-based sector. water monitoring system. And W WS hopes to collect solid data over time by PUB so that the recommendations it makes will be backed up by data."

Mr. Heng said: "We are in the learning phase, as our members are ordinary working people, students, and retirees."

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