Bintaro Lama field trip

On Thursday the 5th, half of 6th grade went to Bintaro Lama Kampung and the other half went to a Water Treatment place. Our class was the half that went to Bintaro Lama. Yuki and me were partners, so we were in a bus together in Ms. Whitley's group. We decided we were going to bring a voice recorder. Unfortunately, that wasn't such a good choice because when we were making the powerpoint, I had two voice recordings, but I had to borrow some pictures from Anna. We went to the Kampung which took us about an hour. Finally we arrived there and we each had our tour guides.

In Station 1, we learned about the sand filter. They had to dig 30 meters down to get the sand and water. They then pour in water into the sand filter nad slowly it becomes clean water. At least clean enough to take a shower. This filter contains sand, pebbles/rocks, gravel and water.

In Station 3, we moved on over to SODIS. SODIS is a station where they show how to clean the water by sun drying the bacteria. Some of the things they did was first clean the bottle and bottle cap with a scrubber and soap. Then they pour some water from the sand filter. After that they left the water bottle on top of the roof to sundry. One rule was that the bottle has to have one texture and no labels on it. If it does, the sun will bounce on the bottle, and that will cause it to not kill some bacterias. There should also be no bubbles in them.

In Station 5, we saw the water quality test. They showed us the DelAqua equipments and hot to use it properly. In the bag was some tubes and a measuring tubidity equipments. There were more things,vbut we weren't introduced to them. What you do with it is you connect the 3 tubes together, and make sure to hold the bottom part, where the x or o is so the water doesn’t spill. The point of the x or o is, after you fill up the tube, you shouldn’t see the markings, otherwise the water isn’t clean. How to use the measuring tubidity equipment is you dip in the thinner side and see the number. It's kind of like a thermometer.

Finally we ended the trip by some local kids singing a song for us. It was in Bahasa, and reminded us to wash our hands to be on the safe side. We then did indeed wash our hands with soap and water. This trip was helpful because we see that we get water way easier then the people who live in the Kampung. Also different creative ways to make fresh water.