A day out at St Cassien

To illustrate the right for children to enjoy a clean environment, 30 students from Collège Marie Mauron, Fayence, France,   were taken for a guided tour in and around the hydroelectric power plant of St Cassien managed by EDF (our National Electricity Organisation ) only a few kilometers from our school. There, they were taught by the guide the annual power production of the turbine : 60 000 000 kWh of green electricity !
They were given leaflets about the risks of electricity as well as further information of the use and purpose of the hydraulic dam built in 1964 among which the reserve of water it provides in cas of wildfires devasting our Mediterraen forests.As part as their science curriculum, children were then shown the functioning of a turbine in class.

People Bingo game in PES Bankerche

One of the best ways for people to get to know each other is to play a game of People Bingo! It’s easy to play, just give each person a Bingo card, and make sure everyone has a pencil or a pen. Explain to the group that they have 15-20 minutes to mingle and to get to know each other. As they find someone that matches one of the traits on the card, have that person sign the box, The first perso  to get a Bingo (five in row up, down or across) wins!  After the game, everybody can gather back together and discuss some of the interesting traits everyone discovered about the members of the group.

I.C. Santagata - 5° CD - European water card

EUROPEAN WATER CARD
Promulgated in Strasbourg on 6 May 1968 by the Council of Europe
1. There is no life without water. Water is a precious commodity,indispensable to all human activities.
2. The availability of fresh water is not inexhaustible. IS indispensable to preserve them, to control them and  if possible to increase them.
3. To alter the quality of water means to harm the life of man and of other living beings that depend on it.
4. Water quality must always be maintained in such a way to be able to meet the needs of the intended uses,especially for public health needs.
5. When the water, after being used, is returned to the natural environment, it must be in conditions that are not compromise the possible uses of the environment, both public and private.
6. Conservation of an appropriate plant cover, of forest preference, it is essential for the conservation of resources water.
7. Water resources must be carefully inventoried.
8. Good water management must be a matter of planning by the competent authorities.
9. Safeguarding water involves an important research effort scientific, training of specialists and public information.
10. Water is a common heritage whose value must be recognized by everyone. Everyone has the duty to economize it and use it with care.
11. Water management should be framed in the natural basin rather than within administrative borders epolicies.
12. Water has no borders. It is a common resource, protectionof which requires international cooperation

I.C. Santagata- 5° CD - Water footprint

of freshwater used by individuals, groups or companies in order to make goods or provide services used by the community. These goods and services may be needed around the entire world. A water footprint can be determined by math for any well-established group of users, or producers. It is measured by dividing the total amount of water used, by the water that became polluted, in the same area during the same amount of time. While the water footprint of an organization is a good indicator for its water consumption and pollution, it does not show how other water sources are affected. More studies will need to be done in order to determine the effect of the water footprint on water sources.

Etymology The water footprint concept was introduced in 2002 by A.Y. Hoekstra from UNESCO-IHE as an alternative indicator of water use.[2]. The concept was refined and accounting methods were established with a series of publications from two lead authors A.K. Chapagain and A.Y. Hoekstra from the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, now at WWF-UK and University of Twente respectively. The most elaborate publications on how to estimate water footprints are a 2004-report on the 'Water footprint of nations' from UNESCO-IHE [3] and the 2008-book Globalization of Water by A.Y. Hoekstra and A.K. Chapagain, published by Blackwell, 2008. Cooperation between global leading institutions in the field has led to the establishment of the Water Footprint Network in 2008 that aims to coordinate efforts to further develop and disseminate knowledge on water footprint concepts, methods and tools.