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Project “Clean Rivers for the Clean Seas” TR1-COM Lifelong Learning Programme /LLP/ Comenius Multilateral Partnership

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 liters per day to ensure basic needs for drinking, cooking and cleaning. 3

We care about world problems 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 5

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Partners Country/CitySchoolWeb site 1 TURKEY /Corum Corum Anatolian High School 2 UNITED KINGDOM /Liecester The City of Leicester College 3 ROMANIA /Sibiu Liceul Teoretic Constantin Noica Sibiu 4 BULGARIA /Kubrat Secondary Comprehensive School Hristo Botev 5 LATVIA /Gulbene Gulbene Secondary School No ITALY / Partinico Lycee Technique “Galilee” 7

, Leicester, UK 8

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, Partinico, Italy 10

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, Sibiu, Romania 14

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Taking samples of the river Olt 16

Results of sample 17

,Chorum, Turkey

River Kızılırmak 19

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Competition of essay writing “Our rivers, ourselves” 21

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Summarizing the survey 23

The survey results for Kubrat 24

Comics competition `

Save Water, Save Life Campaign 26

In this campaign participated 187 students from the school and saved 5,000 liters of fresh water per week. Spesti_voda_spasi_jivot.htmlhttp:// Spesti_voda_spasi_jivot.html 27

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Cleaning around Topchiyska River 29

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IndicatorsMeasuresBefore the village After the village pH Nitratesmg/l2025 Chloridesmg/l1519 General hardnessmgΣqv/l88 Ironμg/l4030 Magnesiummg/l43 Calciummg/l90 32

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. 33

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 34

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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 46

Hristo Botev Secondary school, Kubrat Tel:

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