Water Audit

Hurley’s C3 Club conducted an audit on the water fixtures throughout the main building. The purpose of this audit was to find the amount, if any, of leaks in the schools water fixtures.

Club members checked water fountains, the boys’ and girls’ washrooms, the teacher bathrooms, janitorial closets, the kitchen, and lunchroom. They looked for signs of leaks in these areas that include dripping water from pipes, and water pooling around the area of possible leaks. There were a total of five leaks around the main building. Club members have notified the school’s engineer and principal about the leaks so that they can be repaired.

Personal water audits were also done by all participating members. For a whole day each participant kept track of the amount of water that he/she used for the day. During the next meeting members shared the data they had collected from their personal audit. They used the collected data to calculate the average amount of water used by members, students, and staff at school. The average member used 305 liters of water a day. Members on average used 111,325 liters per year. Using these calculations we estimated the amount of water used by entire school. They rounded the amount of students and staff to 1,000 individuals. They calculated that the school community’s water usage summed up to 1,111,325,000 liters per year.