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Project “Clean Rivers for the Clean Seas”2009-1-TR1-COM06-05559

Lifelong Learning Programme /LLP/ Comenius Multilateral Partnership

2009-20112

Global problem

• Worldwide, there are a billion people without access to drinking water and about 2.6 billion people do not use running water and sewerage;

• Every 20 seconds a child dies as a result of poor hygiene. According to the UN every person needs 20-50 liters per day to ensure basic needs for drinking, cooking and cleaning. 3

We care about world problems

http://www.worldwaterday.org/page/3304 4

Project Objectives • To spark our students’ interest in environmental

issues and to make them sensitive to the need for a “sustainable future;

• To develop feelings of European citizenship and raise consciousness about how pollution is a problem that challenges all of Europe;

• To show how regional environmental issues are part of a larger global problem;

• To improve students’ and teachers’ key competences

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PartnersCountry/City School Web site

1TURKEY/Corum

Corum Anatolian High School

www.corumanadolulisesi.k12.tr

2UNITEDKINGDOM/Liecester

The City of LeicesterCollege

www.cityleicester.leicester.sch.uk

3ROMANIA/Sibiu

Liceul TeoreticConstantin Noica Sibiu

www.ltcn.ro

4BULGARIA/Kubrat

SecondaryComprehensive School

Hristo Botevwww.soukubrat.com

5LATVIA/Gulbene

Gulbene SecondarySchool No 2

www.gulbene.lv

6ITALY/ Partinico

Lycee Technique“Galilee”

www.iisdanilodolci.it 7

24-28.10.2009, Leicester, UK

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21-25.03.2010, Partinico, Italy

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2-5.06.2010, Sibiu, Romania

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Taking samples of the

river Olt

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Results of sample

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15-18.10.2010,Chorum, Turkey

River Kızılırmak

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Competition of essay writing “Our rivers, ourselves”

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Summarizing the survey

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The survey results for Kubrat

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Changing of the climate

47%

Disasters caused by

man 32%

Natural disasters

21%

1. Which of the following problems worries you most?

Comics competition ` 2010

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Save Water, Save Life Campaign

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In this campaign participated 187

students from the school and saved

5,000 liters of fresh water per week.

http://www.btv.bg/az-reporterut/id/12/usernews/233751185-Spesti_voda_spasi_jivot.html

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Cleaning around Topchiyska River

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Indicators Measures Before the village

After the village

pH   7.5 7.8

Nitrates mg/l 20 25

Chlorides mg/l 15 19

General hardness mgΣqv/l 8 8

Iron μg/l 40 30

Magnesium mg/l 43 43

Calcium mg/l 90 9033

Pollutants

• Plastic bags, Plastic household utensils, bottles;

• PE films used for coating greenhouses;

• Residues from dead animals;

• Livestock waste - fresh manure, including on the streets of the settlements. 34

WARNING

• Prevent poaching• Stopping the pollution of the environment with garbage• Preserving the forests• Prevent forest fire• Build more treatment plants• Observe environmental protection laws • Create more nature reserves and National Parks in order to

maintain biodiversity• Protect air, water, soil• Strive for clean agriculture, industry without waste and control

of the factors causing global warming• Termination of the use of GMOs• Properly dispose of biological waste• Aim to recycle your waste

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18 – 22.03.2011 Kubrat, Bulgaria

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Inhabitants of Kamenovo village were interested in project results

Taking samples from the river, July 2011

We found low nitrate pollution

The children checked the results of water samples

• 1. Build more water treatment plants

• 2. Don’t dispose of waste into watersheds

• 3. Regularly monitor of watersheds

• 4. Protect soil otherwise the groundwater can contaminated

• 5. Comply with the rules for water protection

• 6. Prevent oil spills

Contribution

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www.cleanriversforthecleanseas.com

Hristo Botev Secondary school, Kubrate-mail: sou_kubrat@abv.bg Tel: +359 848 72446

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