Despite living in a First World country, young students at a small school in Queensland have gone without a basic human right — until now.
Valkyrie State School has relied on water being trucked in and plastic bottles for several yearsFor the first time in almost 50 years, Valkyrie State School, south-west of Mackay, can turn on the taps to a reliable and refreshing drink of water.Valkyrie P&C president Kristen Michelmore said the kids reported that it tasted amazing."All this was about saying, 'We're not up to standard here. We're not getting the same basic rights that everyone else is in their school'.
"The panels here would offset about 800,000 plastic bottles that the school would have consumed over its lifetime." "To be able to provide clean drinking water from a source from the air … it's such a great project, and it gives the right message to the kids as well."School without permanent waterMs Michelmore said the Education Department had failed to address the elephant in the room."There's been the option of having a dam on the stock route just behind the school, and there's also been the option of running a pipeline.
"There are 125 other schools in our situation that don't have access to permanent water, so this is something that I would really like to see rolled out to all of those schools as well," she said.
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