Thursday, September 23, 2010

A Sink that have button controlling the amount of water and the rate of the flowing




There can be many different designs of the machine to make it look nicer and more stylish so it looks very good and attracts people to buy it and its also very environmentally friendly. By pressing the button you can stop the water before the 30 seconds are up if not it will automatically go off in 30 seconds.Try to make it as cheap as possible with a 3 years of warranty so people would not worry about it getting spoiled.
We could approach various environmental agencies,campaigns and groups to help advertising it and promoting it around the world.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Newater Reflection






This are 2 of our group`s members reflection about Newater.
(Nicholas)
I think that the trip to the newater plant is very meaningful, because we,as Singaporeans really need to know more about our country. Singapore is a small country but we use many galons of water per day and the resevoir water will be used up within days so Singapore created this thing called the Newater Plant.

This newater plant is a place where they treat our waste water, water used at our homes are beingsent to that place. The Newater plant have lots of stage for the water to go through before they can be clean water again. There is a total of 5 stages, after the water has gone through all 5 stages , it become a clean water and it can be drank. this newater plant is very good because it can help us make our waste water become drinkable.

At this newater plant, there is a visitor centre and this place is opened up to everyone, even tourist to know more about how this plant workes. there will be a tourguide bringing you around the visitor centre, letting you know the importance of water, the 5 different stages and how it clear the waste away form the waste water. the place i love most is where we can stand on top of the newater. I love that place because it is brghtly lited with colourful lightings, this makes the whole place more lifely. I hope if we have a chance, we can visit there again.

(Joel)
The trip there was very fruitful as we could see how Singapore can actually ''make'' water from technology.Although we still buy water, i feel that Singaporean have to think of our future if other country don't sell us water. That is why i think that they have this NEwater to take care of our drinkable water. It a very useful technology that we are using. We could use our waste water and ''transform'' in to drinkable water. This trip also tell us that ''making''' water isn't that simple as lots of process are needed to have a safe drinkable water. I look forward to more of this kind of learning journeys.

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Leteral Thinking - Random stimulation

LETERAL THINKING
Step 1: Identify the situation you are discussing.
Situation: Water and waste management - How to conserve water and dispose waste .
Step 2: Find a random word by a random method
Answer: Sink - pointing to a word randomly in a dictionary.
Step 3:Think of 3 ways this word is related/helpful to your project
Answer: -A sink which after using the water , it goes towards the toilet`s flushing system and it can be used to flush the toilet.
-A sink which after using the water , it goes towards your garden`s sprinkler and its used to water the plants.
-A sink which after using the water , it goes towards a central for washing streets and they use the water to fill the vehicles and they wash the streets with it.
PROJECT SKELETON
Group aim:To make a sink that controls where the water goes after being used .
When:By 2014
Who:Every household , factories and big companies which use a lot of water.
Where:Kitchen , Bathroom etc;
Why:A lot of people use water from sink and than the water is dumped into the sea which is a waste of water which can be used for other stuff:Washing streets , watering plants , flushing toilet.
How:Sink companies should create a new type of sink which brings the water towards ur sprinkler/toilet flusher/Companies for washing streets .
Cost:It should be cheap and able to be fixed to old sinks so people do not need to change sinks and waste money.