Sketches around the world

The campaign was launched in China in the middle of last December under the common action of Veolia Environmental Services and Veolia Water.

Water, a life source.

Water is the source of life. There is a legend that says that the last drop of water that will touch upon the soil of our planet Earth will be the tear of a Man. We therefore decided that water would be the main theme of our project.

Our project is halfway between a drawing and a kind of small work of art. We tried to use as many scrap objects as possible to create our project: matches, toothpicks, straws, recycled paper...

On the left of our drawing we depicted our town's wastewater treatment plant.
Thanks to this progress the outskirts of our town have become more attractive. There is much less water wasted...

On the right of our drawing, we would like to set up a "waste water purification" machine that would be called "Future Mark".
This machine would be an example of great efficiency as it would be able to purify all the wastewater in our town. Inhabitants would be able to re-use the water they had already used. It would be magic! This machine could also treat seawater... This machine would be entirely dedicated to sustainable development in Qingdao.

Yet this machine holds even more surprises for you! Drinking the purified water from this machine would be good for your health. Sick people could get back their strength, their youth... No more need to resort to medicines. There will be many beneficial effects within the field of agriculture.

This water would turn the whole of our planet's environment on its head! Nature would have beautiful colors, it would be rich and bountiful! Former species would reappear, and we can even envisage this "purifying" water becoming a new source of energy...

More than 2,000 children of 25 schools from 5 cities in China took part in the campaign : Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Qingdao.

• 2 Cities: Guangzhou, Shanghai
• 7 schools: 6 in Guangzhou, 1 in Shanghai
• 1200 children participating: among whom more than 700 from Guangzhou, about 500 from Shanghai

• 3 Cities: Beijing, Shenzhen, Qingdao
• 18 schools: 9 in Beijing, 3 in Shenzhen, 6 in Qingdao
• 800 children participating

VES Shanghai office contacted Shanghai JiangQiao Primary School in December 2005, and presented VE's "Sketches around the World" to them. The school accepted with motivation to participate to this worldwide event.

VES Shanghai visited the school on January 17^th 2006 and have had a short meeting with the teachers in charge of introducing & explaining the key points of the event to the students for their researches and thoughts during the winter vacation (from January 20^th to February 10^th)

Veolia provided the supported document (the posters, the handbook, etc.) on Monday February 13^th after the winter vacation.

12 students from different classes were appointed as "Project managers" who will recruit their assistants and team members to deploy the events.

Around 34 students visited Shanghai JiangQiao Waste-to-Energy Plant on Feb 17^th. After the "Face-to-face" with the waste incineration treatment, the students have more acquaintance & understanding and they will have the discussions by team to fix on the conceived plans when they back to school.

Veolia Water
Samantha Bowles: samantha.bowles@veoliawater.com.hk
Julia Li Jie: julia.li@veoliawater.com.cn

Veolia Environmental Services
Li Fang: fang.li@veolia-es.cn
Jing Xie: jing.xie@veolia-es.cn