Question

Make three groups of students in your class.

• One group will find out about the arrangements of drinking water in the school.
• The second group will find out about the arrangement of toilet in the school.
• The third group will find out about illness affecting children in the class.

The questions given below will help the groups to collect information.

Group 1

Observe and Note –

1. Put a (✓) in the right box or boxes.

• Where does the water in your school come from?
  (Tap/Tank/Handpump/Any other)
• In your school, from where do you take water to drink?
  (Tap/Tank/Handpump/Any other)

2. If there is no tap, matka or handpump, then how do you get drinking water?

3. Is there water in all the taps or handpumps?

4. Is there any tap which is leaking or dripping?

5. Are all the matkas filled with water and are they covered?

6. Are the matkas and other water containers cleaned regularly?

7. How is water made safe for drinking?

8. Is there a long-handled ladle to take water from the matka or container? How many ladles are there per container?

9. Is the place around the drinking water–taps or matkas cleaned regularly?

Think and Discuss

• Why do the drinking water places get dirty?
• What can we do to keep these places clean?

Find out and write in your notebook

• How often (once a day, once in two days, etc.) are the containers or matkas and ladles cleaned? Who cleans them?
• How many children are there in your school? How many taps, matkas or handpumps are there? Are these sufficient for children?
• Who cleans the places near the water?
• Where does the water that is spilt go?

Group 2

Observe and Note –

1. Put (✓) in the box and write wherever it is required –

• What are the toilet arrangements in your school?
  (Built toilet/Open area)

2. How many toilets are there?

3. Are there separate toilets for girls and boys? (yes/no)

4. Is there water in the toilets? (yes/no)

5. Where does the water come from?

• the tap (yes/no)
• filled containers (yes/no)
• has to be brought from home (yes/no)

6. Is there water for washing hands near the toilet? (yes/no)

7. Do you wash your hands after using the toilet? (yes/no)

8. Is there any tap that is leaking or dripping? (yes/no)

9. Are the toilets kept clean? (yes/no)

Find out and write

• How many boys and girls are there in your school?
  Girls - ______, Boys - ______
• How many toilets are there for girls, and how many for boys?
  Girls - ______, Boys - ______
• If there are no taps, who brings the water for the toilet? From where does the water have to be brought?
• Who keeps the place clean?

Talk about it

• What can be done to keep the toilets clean?
• What can each of us do for this?
• Have you seen toilets at bus stands or railway stations? How are they different from the toilets at home?

Group 3

Talk with the children in your class and fill in the table given below. In the last few months, how many children in the class have suffered from any of these?

S. No.	Diarrhoea, loose motions	Vomiting	Loose motion and vomiting	Yellow urine, yellow (pale) skin and eyes, mild fever	Stomach ache
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Discuss with your teacher what you have found out from your survey. Now make a report with your findings and suggestions. Read your report in the assembly. Put it up on the notice board.

Answer 1

Group 1

Observe and Note –

1. Put a (✓) in the right box or boxes.

• Tap/Tank/Handpump
• Tap

2. We get it from a water tanker.

3. Yes, there is water in all the taps and handpumps.

4. Yes some of them are leaking.

5. Yes, all the matkas are filled with water and are covered.

6. Yes, they are cleaned regularly.

7. There is a filter attached to the overhead tank besides this chlorine tablets is poured regularly in tanks.

8. There is one ladle for each of the matkas.

9. Yes. The place around the water taps, containers and matkas are cleaned regularly.

Think and Discuss

• Water often spills during washing and taking out water.
• By cleaning it regularly and avoiding washing near that place.

Find out and write in your notebook

• Containers, matkas and ladles are cleaned once a day. A peon cleans them.
• There are about 1000 students in my school. There are 20 drinking water taps.
• A peon cleans the places near the water.
• Water that is spilt goes to the sewer line.

Group 2

Observe and Note –

1. Put (✓) in the box and write wherever it is required –

• Built toilet

2. There are fifteen toilets.

3. Yes

4. Yes

5. 

• Yes
• No
• No

6. Yes

7. Yes

8. No

9. Yes

Find out and write

• Girls - 350, Boys - 650
• Girls - 5, Boys - 10
• If there are no taps, students would bring water from the handpump.
• The place is kept clean by the peons.

Talk about it

• Regular washing is necessary to keep the toilets clean.
• Do not create any mess in the toilet and maintain cleanliness.
• Yes, I have seen the toilet at a bus stand and railway station. As those are at public places, so, many people use them. They are less clean than the toilets in our home.

Group 3

S. No.	Diarrhoea, loose motions	Vomiting	Loose motion and vomiting	Yellow urine, yellow (pale) skin and eyes, mild fever	Stomach ache
1.	Raju	Raju	Raju	Ashok	Raju
2.	Payal	Rahim	Rahim	Asfaq	Sunil
3.	Ajeet	Pradeep	Pardeep	Suresh	Ramesh
4.	Vikas	-	-	-	Vikas
5.	Rohit	-	-	-	-