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Excerpt from DNA, reported Sandeep Ashar, February 5, 2010: Read Full Article
With the city battling with its worst ever water crisis, a bunch of young heroes have emerged to inspire Mumbaikars to save water.

A class of 37 school students from a Marathi-medium school in Deonar have made their school change its water consumption habits. The initiative, by the class V students, has helped the city save close to 20,160 litres of water everyday.

Here’s how the 10-year-old’s have brought about the change. Disturbed by the water loss due to leaky taps in their school, the students with help from their class teacher — Dr Seema Chudekar — undertook a project mapping the water loss and suggested preventive steps.

While the project was undertaken in the last week of December, the students and the teacher recently submitted a report based on the project to the schools administration. “Whenever the subject of using water judiciously was discussed in the class, the students kept pointing towards the water loss from taps in the school and often asked why it was not being curbed. This led to the project,” Chudekar said.

The students divided themselves in small groups and first mapped the number of leaking taps, and then measured the quantity of water loss. “Of the 18 taps on the ground floor of the premises, we found 14 were leaking. While the water loss was in drops at a few taps, from many others there was a constant trickle,” Noorjahan Majid, one of the students, said.