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Concept Paper of Water Current-Powered Water Cleaning Devices

This document proposes a project to develop water current-powered devices to clean garbage and pollution from rivers. The devices would float on the riverbank and use the water current to rotate and transfer trash to a storage area. The goal is to have clean rivers by 2030. It would take one month to design, build, and deploy the devices. Nearly half the budget would go toward materials, with the rest split between engineers and laborers. The proposed budget for the one-month project is 20,000 to 22,000 pesos.

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Concept Paper of Water Current-Powered Water Cleaning Devices

This document proposes a project to develop water current-powered devices to clean garbage and pollution from rivers. The devices would float on the riverbank and use the water current to rotate and transfer trash to a storage area. The goal is to have clean rivers by 2030. It would take one month to design, build, and deploy the devices. Nearly half the budget would go toward materials, with the rest split between engineers and laborers. The proposed budget for the one-month project is 20,000 to 22,000 pesos.

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Concept Paper of

Water Current-Powered Water


Cleaning Devices

Submitted by: Rewin Enverga

Jana Balquiedra

Submitted to: Maam Araña


Background

Deny it or not, water pollution is still one of the top problems in the
world, and it is getting worse as the time goes by. Water is so essential for
every community in the world, mostly on people’s health, and if its
contamination continues, it will create a huge problem to the world. Water
pollution will be a threat for aquatic plants and animals, diseases will
spread quickly, and rendering drinking water unsafe. This kind of pollution
is a poison for all life forms in the universe, and to protect them, it ‘s urgent
to find a solution for this serious problem. According to The World Counts,
water-borne diseases account for the deaths of 3,575,000 people a year.
That’s equivalent to a jumbo jet crashing every hours, and the majority of
these are children.

The Clean and Clear Water Action has been committed since year
2002 to their mission to clean the water forms within their community by
educating people about water, pollution, sanitation, and things they should
do, spreading awareness through different campaigns, and formulating
different feasible solutions that help on treating the said pollution. As our
continuous hard work and innovation, our team has designed a simple yet
effective way of clearing garbage like plastics along the way using a device
that floats on the riverbank. This project is also interesting because it is an
adaptable solution, more inexpensive and more effective than other
cleaning systems. We have conducted a small test of it, and we have
concluded that 85% of waste per month were cleared.

With the proposed solutions our team made, we want to do it in


many rivers within the scope of the municipality, and so the increase of
financial needs is expected. The project’s mission is to save lives by cleaning
the water, and it wouldn’t be possible without your support.
Project Description

Our proposed project, Water Current-Powered Cleaning Devices


composes of circle floating devices, positioned diagonally on the river;
allow to transport trash in a specifically designed storage area. The device
will start moving constantly by means of river’s water current, and each
device is anchored so it will remain on its spot. If a plastic waste touch one
of the device, it will be transferred to another device as it rotate, until it
reaches the storage area. Boats can still pass through, because the devicces
can give way, then go back to its initial position. Rise of water level is also
not a problem, as the rope connected from the anchor to device is long
enough. What makes it unique to other cleaning systems is it is eco-friendly
characteristic, totally self-powered, and allows navigability of all water
vehicles, like boats.

i. Goals and Objectives

Our goal is to have a clean and clear river by 2030. On the other
hand, our objective is to remove pollutants from the river before it go to
the ocean, or circulate in different kinds of water forms.

ii. Methodology and Timeline


In doing the machine, it will take about one month to finish it. The
methods that are going to be followed to finish this project is to collect all
the donations that sponsors will give, plan for the devices’ design and
structure with engineering intervention, then materials that are needed will
be bought.

The schedule are as follows:

 1st week – Target river will be assessed.


 2nd week – Plan for the devices’ design, then buy the
materials needed for this project.
 3rd week – The laborer will start to make the devices.
 4th week – In this week, devices are expected to be done.
Laborers will start to put and anchor the devices by the
riverbank.
 5th week – Start for a dry-run.

After one month this project will be ready to start its service. Further
minor adjustments and assessments are expected after the actual set-up.

Benefits

The environment will mainly be benefited from this proposed project


as it helps to reduce the garbage and other pollutants along the river;
serves as a protective barrier from trash before it enters the oceans. By
that fact, this is also eco-friendly and safe for the fish, it won’t risk any
natural resources.

Budget for Project's 1 Month Production


Engineers Laborer Materials

31%

46%

23%

Budget/Support

This estimated budget needed for this project is ranging to 20,000 to


22,000. This project will be very helpful to our nature, and it’s very
affordable. We would like to ask some donation for this project, and even
though it’s just a small amount it will be a big help to our project.

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