bottled water (bassem)

Good thing it only costs 500LL

Good thing it only costs 500LL – you can get a better price if you buy the dozen, because it’s cheaper by the dozen – the 1.5 L costs 750 LL (1.25 x the price, 3 x more water) – the 5 L gallon costs 1500 (3 x the price, 10 x more water) – the 19 L reusable gallon costs 5000LL, we get it for 4500LL, I don’t know how we got that deal though. (9 x the price, 38 x more water) –the last deal is better than the others, 263.14LL/Liter – you can go to the ‘ein (العين), fill up whatever container you have with the fresh cold water, no charge – you could set up your filtering system, get potable water straight out of the tap – you could also | WAIT – WAIT – WAIT | potable water out of the tap?! Why so surprised... Isn’t this how it’s supposed to be? Maybe in a million years –

He is a farmer, he lives in Akkar. Arab, jarab, darab, naatab, khachab, ghadab and yves are his sons who had survived, after the 5 others died. [they were a dozen]. With their father, they grow vegetables, the ones that would grow without water, tomatoes. They actually rely on rain water to get the crops, if it’s a dry season, they harvest the tomatoes after the first rain, no irrigation, they call the tomatoes baal (بعل (, now that they know how to grow crops with very little water, they still need to find out another way for having drinking water. No one mentioned potable water; they just need drinking water. Drinking water for them could come from the rain water they collect, a lake nearby, and sometimes, from the leaking faucet they have attached to the rusty pipe coming from we don’t know where. No ‘ein nearby, no luck for them. No good rain water collecting system neither, no luck for them. Lake dries sooner than they realize no luck for them. Faucet water is why abou arab now only has seven sons. Apparently, Mud, dirt, mire, muck, earth, ooze, sludge, giardia, E. coli, and protozoa did not prevent them from quenching their thirst.

Wastewater Treatment- Dana m

One day, Karim was wandering around the AUB campus while considering the idea of becoming a visiting student for the spring semester. That way he could spend some time with his relatives in Beirut. Wanting to take a look at the campus he started his journey to take in the sites that AUB has to offer. While he was walking around one of the departments, he almost tripped over a large bucket filled with some sort of bubbly water and white foam on the surface. Looking around for the reason of the ill placed bucket, he noticed one of the janitors mopping the floor inside one of the rooms. After a while, as Karim was going to the toilets, he noticed a little room on the side before the entrance of the restroom, where the janitor was disposing of what was now dirty “gray” cleaning water in a weird looking sink. It was the first time he had seen such a fixture. To his knowledge, the cleaning water is usually disposed in the WC. He couldn’t help but ask the janitor about that weird looking sink, to which the janitor smiled and answered Karim that it was called a mop sink. It is a fixture equipped especially for public buildings for cleaning water to be disposed of and he then pointed out at three metal rods coming out of the mop sink like ribs and said that those are used to hang the mops after they are cleaned. Happy by the discovery he had just made he then went down to Aain El Mreisseh, waiting for his cousin to be done with his classes. He had an hour to waste, and since he hadn’t been to Lebanon in four years, he decided to go to the Corniche and enjoy the sea side on this sunny winter day. As he was enjoying his promenade, he observed all the different user groups of the Corniche around him, the fishermen, the joggers, the couples flirting on a beautiful day and the few people swimming next to the fishermen. He then leaned on the rail and wanted to enjoy the horizon even more. To his misfortune, he decided to settle directly over a large pipe located right across from McDonald’s. To his surprise, when he leaned over, he saw all sorts of untreated wastewater coming out of the pipe to the sea. The pipe was discharging the wastewater without any treatment directly into the sea. He then looked again at the fishermen, the couples, the joggers and the ones swimming and was alarmed by what he saw. Compared to where he comes from, wastewater goes through all sorts of treatments to the point where it gets rehabilitated for irrigation, fertilizing the land etc... These people here are just hanging around this filth and they’re not even aware of it. He then thought back again about the mop sink and said to himself: why have these intricate fixtures if the water is not going to be filtered and end up directly into the sea anyway?!