Founded: 2009
Project: Expansion/Completion of the Rainwater Collection System at Sur Baher Girls School, East Jerusalem
Location: East Jerusalem
WRAP, in cooperation with partners, finished construction of its first rain collection system at the Sur Baher Girls School in East Jerusalem last year. The system includes 1 collecting tank and 9 (1,500 liter) storage tanks which serve the bathroom on the opposite side of the building. The system collects rainwater that runs off the roof and sidewalks of the school into the 9 tanks, and has the capacity to collect and store 13,500 liters of water that is used for flushing toilets (the largest use of water in a school), greatly reducing the school’s municipal water usage and the costs to it. The current system, however, does not cover the entire roof, so a significant amount of rainwater is lost. Furthermore, it does not serve all of the bathrooms. The Jerusalem Fund grant will help add three more storage tanks (making the total capacity 18,000 liters) and two more collecting barrels with submerged pumps; this will include water lines and labor to provide water to the toilets in two additional bathrooms.
