[Health] Sanitation / clean water topics

Tue Aug 31 21:52:32 EDT 2010

Hi Ian and All...
Yes, I have seen that in Latin America too (I won't name the country).  We once stayed in a small village where the sewage flowed into the bay.  It got washed out with the tide, and sometimes (usually) washed back in.  We joked that it got "flushed" twice a day.  We were very, very careful with food handling, hand washing, water purification and the like. Luckily, none of us got sick.  We have great memories of the people we met there though.
Our challenge is partly due to the fact that Beth would like to keep the 10 lesson per/unit format they use at Waveplace.  We have too many if we put water and sanitation together.
Caryl

Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:09:49 +1100
From: IanT at spc.int
To: health at lists.laptop.org
Subject: Re: [Health] Sanitation / clean water topics

In many Pacific Islands (actually those that are atolls)
sanitation and water go hand in hand.

Poor sanitation, mostly caused by rapid urbanization and
overcrowding, pollutes the lagoon (a source of food ) and the fresh water lens under
the atoll that they use for fresh water.

Handling each part separately may be necessary, but we also need
to find ways to get the students to investigate the linkages as well.

Ian Thomson 

PacRICS and OLPC Coordinator

SPC

Phone +687 26 01 44

From: health-bounces at lists.laptop.org
[mailto:health-bounces at lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of Caryl Bigenho

Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 10:56 AM

To: Beth Santos; health at lists.laptop.org

Subject: Re: [Health] Sanitation / clean water topics

Hi...

Nice
resources.  I looked over several. Some would work for us, some wouldn't.
 I notice that the data in the UNESCO materials is a bit out of date. I
wonder if more recent numbers are available.

In
looking at the water and sanitation data from UNESCO, it seems that Sanitation
is the greater problem, so perhaps we should start with that one?  One of
the graphs even shows a couple of western European countries as being behind in
sanitation progress... Italy and Portugal.  Of course, the data is out of
date, but it could still be a problem.

A
couple of things to add to the Water list...  the Water Cycle,  Water
distribution methods (private wells, shared public wells, municipal water
systems, etc.)?

I
also found a lind to things already on the OLPC wiki:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Water_and_sanitation

(some
links on the page are out of date) It was put up in July 2008 by a Robert
Steiner, Executive Director (of what?). I glanced through the Health mailing
list and did not find him listed at all.  Still... we may be re-inventing
the wheel. Maybe we should see if we can find out who he is and if anything has
come of his project.

Caryl

BTW,
I assume you have heard about the gasoline additive, MTBE, polluting drinking
water in the USA?

http://www.waterwebster.com/MTBE.htm

From: beth at waveplace.org

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:28:52 -0400

To: health at lists.laptop.org

Subject: [Health] Sanitation / clean water topics

Hey all,

Here
are some additional ideas for sanitation/water lesson structures. I also found
some awesome material on the UNICEF and water.org websites-- lesson plans that we may be able to
incorporate into our curriculum.

You
can download those at

http://teachunicef.org/explore/topic/water-and-sanitation

and

http://water.org/learn-about-the-water-crisis/lessonplan/

Beth

Sanitation

 Intro:
     What is sanitation and why is it important?

 Who,
     What, When, Where, Why and How to wash your hands

 How
     to make soap

 What
     to do if you get diarrhea

 Proper
     disposal of human waste

 How
     to make a safe latrine

 Rehydration...
     how to

Water

 Intro
     to water: different types of water, saltwater vs freshwater, potable vs
     unpotable water

 Is
     "dirty" water always bad and "clean" water always
     good?

 What's
     in the water that you can and can't see that can hurt you

 How
     can you purify water?

 How
     to make a solar still

 Other
     ways to get safe water without burning up the rainforest to do it

 Water
     and the environment- what human activity does to water resources and why

---

Beth Santos

Outreach Coordinator

Waveplace Foundation

Tel: +1 610 797 3100 x 44

Fax: +1 610 797 3199

Cell: +1 603 661 1273 

http://www.waveplace.org

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@waveplace

On
Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Beth Santos <beth at waveplace.org> wrote:

(S)
Sanitation (six lessons so far)

(W)
Water (five lessons so far)

S-What
to do if you get diarrhea

S-Rehydration...
how to 

S-How
to make a safe latrine

S-Proper
disposal of human waste

S-How
to make soap

S-Who,
What, When, Where, Why and How to wash your hands

W-What's
in the water that you can and can't see that can hurt you

W-How
can you purify water?

W-Is
"dirty" water always bad and "clean" water always good?

W-How
to make a solar still

W-Other
ways to get safe water without burning up the rainforest to do it

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