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Students and youth
awareness-raising
Aqualia conducts In Sant Antoni (Ibiza), Aqualia the city. The pupils were thus
awarenessraising organised an educational trip able to see how the plant’s
campaigns for children for 200 pupils in the third year dual stage filtering systems
and young people, managing of secondary school. Under with continuous scrubbing
open day workshops and visits the slogan “taking care of our filters actually works.
to facilities so that they can water to build a better world”,
get a firsthand view of the the children participated in Oviedo students also visited
comprehensive water cycle workshops and were treated the Malpica Wastewater
management and tips on how to a magic show to learn Treatment Plant, where they
they can use water responsibly about the desalination process, saw a demonstration of a
every day. In Écija (Seville), for an essential activity for the camera-equipped robot
instance, schoolchildren visited island’s water resources. internally inspecting the
the Wastewater Treatment sewerage network.
Plant where they learned how In Dénia (Alicante), we
dangerous waste such as paper partnered with the local SmVak held its third straight
towels that we often toss into government to organise visits “The tree of life”, an annual
drains or flush down toilets for 218 local schoolchildren to interactive environmental
can actually be. Activities of the Beniadiá Drinking Water education and
this sort are further proof of Treatment Plant (DWTP). awarenessraising
Aqualia’s commitment to the The purpose of the visit was programme for schools.
environment by educating to give students a firsthand
from the start. glimpse of the process that These activities were designed
water undergoes from capture to teach schoolchildren and
The Valverde del Camino to tap and, especially, the instil a sense of responsibility in
wastewater treatment plant drinking water purification that society as a whole should
(Huelva) welcomed first-year process. progress with respect to the
secondary school visitors. The use of water and sanitation.
pupils learned about the local 50 third and fourth year
comprehensive water cycle pupils from Primaria de
and received indications on Fraga (Huesca) visited the
making a responsible use facilities at the Drinking Water
of the sanitation system Treatment Plant managed by
Open day workshops with pupils at the Ávila Wastewater Treatment Plant.
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