Teaching the importance of water conservation

Celebrating World Water Day on Tuesday, Siza Water invited 70 pupils from 7 peri-urban North Coast schools to join them for a fun day of learning about the importance of water at the Boathouse in Ballito.

Siza Water, the water and sanitation provider from Zimbali to Etete, held the day of learning to teach children not only about the importance of water, but also to teach them about the water cycle and conservation.

The event kicked off with a fun and interactive Q&A session by Siza Water partner, One Planet SA’s Leslé Hall, with the theme of the day being ‘Groundwater: making the invisible visible’.

The attentive room of children showed no hesitation in answering questions, the majority of whom were astoundingly accurate for a group of Grade 4 to 7 pupils.

Hall discussed the water cycle, posing questions around the process from evaporation through to condensation and precipitation, also sharing how plants, after absorbing water through their roots, would restart the process of the water cycle at night through transpiration.

Afterwards, Hall informed the children they have in a way been drinking the same water as their great grandparents, highlighting that water is not an infinite resource.

Understanding that water may one day run out, children were asked whether they would pollute water with plastic and detergents, among others.

Grasping the impact of this, children realised more needed to be done to protect water as a resource.

Closing the day off, children were taken to Salmon Bay for a clean-up of the beach, where they searched for common pollutants such as microplastics.

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