Fourth-grade school children from CEIP Juan Cruz Ruiz in the La Vera neighborhood and CEIP César Manrique in the municipality of Puerto de la Cruz received informative talks on March 22 on the occasion of World Water Day by Aqualia, a company service concessionaire.
After sharing a few words with those present at the beginning of the talk, Mayor Marco González and the councilor for the Community Welfare, Educational Action and Healthy Practices area, Flora Perera, gave way to Federico Mendoza, Aqualia’s service manager in the municipality, and Atasara Hernández, the company’s water quality manager in the Canary Islands, to impart knowledge to students and teachers about how the urban water cycle works and how to care for the sanitation network.
During the course of the talks in the classrooms of the center itself, in situ measurements were made of the analysis of chlorine in the water samples, the use of the geophone for the detection of leaks by means of ultrasound and the difference in the effects of immersing the toilet paper and the wet wipes in the water, simulating with an agitator what happens in the pipes, a demonstration through which they saw with their own eyes the damage that can be caused by throwing wipes and other waste irresponsibly down the toilet.
On the other hand, the City Council and Aqualia presented Aqualia’s educational notebooks, inviting schoolchildren to participate in the 20th digital children’s drawing contest, the rules of which can be consulted on the Aqualia website (www.aqualiayods6.com), a contest that aims to raise awareness and educate the little ones about the importance of water and the work behind opening the tap and having quality water.
“It is very important that the future guardians of water in the Canary Islands become aware and acquire responsible habits with respect to water, both in relation to its consumption and its return to the natural environment through existing purification processes”, stressed the Mayor Marco Gonzalez. Perera emphasized that this work be carried out “in collaboration with educational centers and at an early age so that boys and girls are champions of this important fight to take care of our most precious resource: water.”
