Quarters for Water

•International World Water Day was started in 1993.

•It’s purpose is to focus world attention on the importance of fresh water on our planet

Thursday March 22, 2012

Water – Imagine a Life without it!• Lack of clean water for millions of people is

an urgent crisis in the world.• Children in other countries like Uganda

have to work hard just to get enough water to live.

Faucets? Jerry cans?• Millions of people – women and children

(mostly girls) walk long distances to collect water.

• Many children are not able to go to school because it can take hours to get the water and bring it home.

• Water is often dirty and can lead to illnesses.• More than 1.5 million children die from

diarrhea each year.

In Mygera, Uganda the people need to carry

large plastic cans called jerry cans down

to the lake.

•They fill the cans with lake water and carry it back to their home by walking or riding a bike. •They often walk several miles each way.

DOES YOUR WATER LOOK CLOUDY LIKE THIS WATER?

This water must be boiled before it can be used for drinking.

A photo of stored water in a home

All water is used very sparingly

Updates from 2011• Most people on the planet use less

than 2 gallons of water per day.• Americans use up to 100 gallons per

day!• Change A Life Uganda (CALU) is

helping children in rural Uganda get clean water and an education.

This year you will see how the Jackson Municipal Water Company cleans and delivers the water

you drink every day compared to the water

quality of children in rural Uganda.

•Jackson has a water company called the Jackson Township Municipal Utilities Authority. (JTMUA)

•They take water from underground, process it and deliver it to your house.

Have you ever wondered how clean, clear water gets

to your faucet?

Let’s see how the Jackson Township Municipal Utilities Authority, JTMUA, brings the

water to your faucets.

How does the water

in your faucet

become clean? How does it get into

your home?

This is an electronic map of the Jackson Water system. It shows the location of wells and

water tanks throughout Jackson Township. It also shows the status of all the pumps and

whether they are filling or draining.

• These are the aquifers running under Jackson.

• This map shows the seven wells Jackson uses for it’s water.

• This is a 1,500 gallon per minute water pump.

• The motor is 200 horse power and is submerged underground.

• Jackson has 10 wells like this one in it’s water system.

• This pump could fill an in ground swimming pool in 10 minutes.

• These are water filters (6) used for filtering water.• Each one can filter 500 gallons of water per minute (3,000 gal/min)• The blue pipes are clean water coming out of the filters and green pipes are raw water from underground going into the filter.

This map shows the status of the pump

These six filters take the minerals our of your drinking water. Jackson has some of the cleanest and most pure water in the

state of New Jersey.

These are the filter backwash tanks. Iron and manganese particles are taken out

before the water is sent to the storage tanks. They each hold 300,000 gallons of water.

• This is the water testing station.

• The water is always running to make sure the water sample being tested is the same water that comes out of the filters.

• This water tower was built in Jackson 20 years ago and is

still in use. It holds 200,000 gallons of water.

• The water tank behind the tower holds 1,000,000 gallons of water.

Water – Imagine a Life without it!• Lack of clean water for millions of people

is an urgent crisis in the world.• Children in other countries like Uganda

have to work hard just to get enough water to live.

Each day children go back and forth to the lake…

carrying jugs of water by hand or on a bike.

Every day, many times per day the children walk back

and forth between their home and the lake carrying

heavy water cans.

No complaining, some smiling faces. This is the only way to get water and

the children want to help their families.

Imagine….If you had to walk to collect water from a river, or

if you had no toilet or shower at home.

What would be the biggest way that it might change the life you have now?

What is being done to help?• Many organizations and governments are

addressing this situation with programs, financial support and education projects.

• You can help Change A Life Uganda bring clean water to the children in Mygera.• ALL IT TAKES IS A QUARTER!

DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY NJ SCHOOL CHILDREN RAISED FOR

QUARTERS FOR WATER IN 2011?

$22,639!!!• How many quarters is that? • 565,975 quarters• How much did Christa McAuliffe School contribute?

$566.95 or 14,174 quarters

What has Change A Life Uganda done with the Quarters for Water

funds?

2010: 4 Tanks at the school and 1 at the health center

Hydrological Survey of Land

DRILL A WELL 1/2 MILE FROM

THE SCHOOL

SUCCESS! WATER FROM A 512’ WELL

The well is capped

Next: Distribution Pipes & Storage TankWith your help this is what CALU hopes to do in 2012 and 2013

How can you help?Wear a hat…that’s

all it takes!

Last year, McAuliffe Middle Schoolraised over $450.00 for CALU!

• In March 2011 the CMMS Wear a Hat day raised

funds to help drill a well for the children of CALU.

On Friday, March 23rdPay $1.00 to your homeroom

teacher and you can wear a hat to school for the entire day.

You will receive a pass to keep with you for the day.

The best part…All the money raised goes straight to Quarters for Water to help students

just like you drink clean water!

Conservation TipsWays you can help conserve water at home and school

DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH WATER IS SAFE AND ACCESSIBLE

FOR OUR USE ON EARTH? • Even though 2/3’s of the planet is made

of water, less than 1% is safe and accessible for use.

• The rest is frozen or seawater and too salty to drink!

Teeth brushing 2-4 gallonsToilet flush 5 gallonsAutomatic dishwashing 12 gallonsShower (5 minutes) 25-50 gallonsWashing machine 60 gallonsTaking a bath 60 gallonsWashing the car 50 – 100 gallonsOutdoor plant watering 180 gallons

How many gallons of water we use in our daily life?

Thank you to all the McAuliffe Middle School

students helping the children of St. Lawrence

School in Mygera, Uganda. Change A Life Uganda needs

students like you to keep Quarters for Water growing.