Reflecting on

AP with WE

Patrick Appah, Hayley Boyles, Cameron Massey

What was our action plan?

● Gain further knowledge on the damage, mainly how it

contributes to water crisis, in Puerto Rico
○ Contacting and interviewing Boston Scientific Dr.
● Reach the youth of the community! (Advocacy)
○ Wake Forest Middle School visit
○ 12/14 and 12/15
What we did

● Visited Middle Schools to educate and advocate

● Interviewed to gain and then provide insight to a current water crisis
contribution
● Advocated for supporting the Thirst Project
○ Our 2 main goals
■ Local - Going to WFMS and creating call to action to do basic water saving techniques and
to spread the word, incorporate how the water crisis applies on the local level
■ Global - Educating on global stance and advocating for organization that helps globally)
Our measurable goal:

● Attend at least one school (hopefully more) in the community and successfully
educate and motivate the students to help the water crisis (such as basic water
conservation, future donation, attending our movie night and bringing others to
hear about the crisis)
● We can measure this with the results of our review post-presentation as to
whether or not we were successful in making them aware of the crisis
Our focus points

How

● Natural Disasters
● Pollution
● State of countries

Contribute to the Water Crisis (globally and locally)

What we learned from investigation

● Contextualize and go further in depth

● Crisis experienced all over the world
● Water quality greatly impacts life quality
○ Impacts hygiene, sanitation, health
○ Increases child mortality
○ Results in diseases such as guinea worm
● We were able to break it down into the 3 main categories of contributions after
research, investigation, and what we learned in class
Connection to APES

● Hydrologic Cycle & Pollution

○ Analysis of Flint, Michigan and Ganges River, India
● Techniques and solutions for water contamination
(underground wells)
● Natural disasters
Sources and Resources

Unique and key resources included:

● Interview
● Thirst Project (website and speaker)
● Town of Wake Forest information
● APES Curriculum
● Internet
Local aspect (U.S.)

● Puerto Rico
○ Hurricane Irma
○ Boston Scientific Doctor - Dr. Jordan Councill
● Details included:
○ Have access to water with faucets - possible contamination
○ More than 50% of the island’s clean water is being affected
○ “All of the water from the rivers and streams are contaminated with water
run-off, animal waste, stagnant water, animals that have died, human
waste, trash, etc.”
Photos provided by
Boston Scientific
Global Aspect

● Ganges River (India)

○ Pollution
● Swaziland
○ State of Country
○ Thirst Project
In depth

● Water contamination
○ Providing background on why the global
water crisis is a crisis
● Health effects (more detail to follow)
● State of Third World Countries
Background information

● In the U.S. we have MCLs (maximum contaminant levels)

● Waterborne illnesses
○ guinea worm, cholera, typhoid, dysentery, hepatitis E,
Diarrhea
● 800 people die per day around the globe due to these illnesses
that they contract from drinking water
● Almost 1,800 children die every day from the lack of sanitation,
hygiene, and water (UNICEF)
Our call to action...

● Basic water conservation - shorter showers, cleaning up, etc.

● Tell people (our main focus)
○ We were inspired after the Thirst Project speaker and wanted to impact
other young members of our community in a similar way (gained a lot of
new information from this)
○ The youth in the community are the most important, they are the future
● Giving them the shocking yet true facts
● Encouraging them to attend HHS Movie Night and to bring their families to
learn more about the water crisis
Our Future

● Attending Thirst Project Service Trips

● Future Middle School Presentation
● Encouraging and also personally donating supplies and money
● Continuing to spread the word
To Conclude