This week the Enviro Avengers had a visit from a member of the Sustainable Schools named Pragna. She is currently planning the ‘Eye on nature’ program which will be hosted on the 22nd of March. Pragna came in and taught us about the water cycle, she taught us things like how water evaporates and turns into the clouds that we see and how snow can mount and flow water into the sea which will eventually flow into the ocean.

After she brought us over to the garden and asked about our project, after explaining to her she started asking questions like: 

“How can you do this?” or “do you know how to do it?” things like that. We answered her questions and she took out a plastic water bottle with two holes in it. She then poured water into the bottle, and asked us which hole had more pressure, and we chose the one closer to the top. Pregna then gave us 2 tubes and got us to hold it and showed us that water doesn’t go up naturally. She then told us to try and ‘throw’ the water up the pipes which obviously didn’t work. 

She then took us down to the old Weka classes and showed us the location of our barrel and how it will work. She showed us a tube connected and how it was flexible. She explained that the thicker the tube the more pressure we would need to move it up which was a learning moment for most of us. We then went back into the shade where she gave her closing remarks(aka conclusion to her speech/presentation) and left. The Enviro Avengers then went back to the main school building and continued researching how to move water up into our garden.