This summer, Maldonado felt excited about the idea to create a proposal to put water fountains in the suites.
And that’s actually the third time in two years that Student Senate has been asked to put a water fountain there,” said Maldonado.
Student Kelsey Cheney has lived in the suites for two years and says it has been an extreme inconvenience not having water close by.
“Not having a water fountain in the suites is very difficult and inconvenient.
“Not having a water fountain on campus, or close to me, has impacted me because I tend to not drink as much water as I should and I turn to alternative beverages that may not be as healthy for me.” Maldonado aims to alleviate these concerns, explaining that every time Student Senate has asked the school to fund this project the school has cited a $13,000 maintenance cost to tear down walls and realign the pipes.
He cited items such as residents needing to go to other buildings for water and an inability to get water after midnight as reasons for needing a water fountain, acknowledging that it is a costly project at $13,000.
It’s a very ambitious goal to raise that much money, but I’m hoping it will turn into a year long thing,” said Maldonado.
While the proposal does not currently have an official title, Maldonado hopes to pick up the name “Sweet Suite Water” for creativity purposes.
After it is presented to Student Senate and is discussed, they are given a week to think about it, and then at the next meeting they may either approve or deny the request.
“I hope residents pick up on this.

Speaking during a provincial commemoration of World Habitat Day at Dulivhadzimo Stadium, Dr Chikodzore said the three cases recorded in Beitbridge had been successfully contained and that cholera treatment camps had been set at most hospitals across the province.
“Cholera is a preventable disease that is used as a barometer of inadequate access to safe clean water and sanitation,” said Dr Chikodzore.
“The provision of safe drinking water and sanitation facilities plays a role in preventing the spread of cholera and typhoid.
We have put in place measures to effectively contain the spread of any further infections in the area (Tshapfuche).
Our teams are rolling out various awareness campaigns and surveillance programmes to ensure we don’t have the recurrence of the disease.
“Some of the initiatives include the promotion of basic hygiene and monitoring of all diarrhoeal cases in the area.” She said they were also worried about the lack of sanitation and ablution facilities in Beitbridge which stand at 22 percent.
According to Dr Chikodzore, the provincial medical directorate was well prepared for cholera and typhoid.
Dr Chikodzore said there was need to revamp ageing water and sanitation infrastructure at most health institutions in the province, especially at Beitbridge, Gwanda and Maphisa hospitals.
“We call upon town councils and municipalities to look into issues of water and sanitation with the urgency they deserve.
“It is important that we put heads together and pool resources so that we address water and sanitation related challenges,” she said.

Only one in every 10 families in Gaza has access to reliable drinking water, said a report revealing worsening humanitarian conditions in the blockaded territory.
The percentage of those who have access to reliable drinking water is 58 percent for urban areas, according to the report released by Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
Gaza’s main water source contains 55 to 60 million cubic meters of water over the course of a year, but demand from Gaza’s two million population exceeds 200 million cubic meters.
Gaza has long suffered severe water problems, with its aquifer contaminated by sewage, chemicals and seawater and the territory’s three desalination plants unable to meet demand.
In order to meeting their water-drinking needs, most citizens depend on imported, bottled water.
One solution has been buying more water from Israel, which has vast desalination capacities.
But it took the Palestinians 20 years of negotiation — from 1995 to 2015 — to secure the purchase of just five million more cubic meters.
Already squeezed by the more than decade-long Israeli blockade, Gaza’s economy has been further weakened by U.S. aid cuts and financial measures.
Since 2007, the Gaza Strip has suffered under a crippling Israeli and Egyptian blockade that has gutted its economy and deprived its inhabitants of many vital commodities, including food, fuel and medicine.
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Shillong, Oct 3: The Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement (KHNAM) youth wing on Wednesday met, Public Health Engineering (PHE) Minister, Samlin Malgniang and brought to the notice of the state government the quality of drinking water supplied to the people of Shillong city.
In the memorandum to the PHE Minister, the KHNAM youth wing called for the need to have a water policy or a “drinking water guidelines and regulations” to ensure that all human beings within the state have access to safe drinking water.
According to KHNAM youth wing president Thomas Passah, they had carried out a brief survey on the quality of drinking water from residence of various localities in Shillong city.
“It has been brought out that the water supplied to households appeared to be greasy/oily which have brought fear to the minds of many,” Passah pointed out.
The KHNAM youth wing said that they had approached the previous government on several occasions in after substantial proof was found that the drinking water supplied to the citizen of the state is unsafe and contaminated.
“We have also put up concerns over the PHE Mawphlang for not having a Microbiologist in its establishment to certify quality of drinking water.
The pathetic/unhygienic condition of pipelines supplying water to adjacent localities from Khlieh Iew was also intimated to the government for necessary action,” the KHNAM youth wing stated.

The Environmental Protection Agency is making $20 million available for states and tribes to voluntarily test drinking water for lead at schools and childcare facilities.
Skye Borden, state director of Environment Montana , said it’s important for educational institutions to test for the chemical, which is especially harmful to children.
They also need to report the results.
"I think it’s important for parents, teachers and students to be able to easily access information about the water quality in their school," she said.
Borden’s group contributed to a recent report on school drinking water across the country including in Montana, Colorado and Utah.
It concluded that the problem is more pervasive than previously thought.
"One thing that we do see, that can be an issue in western towns, particularly ones with a legacy of mining.
The more acidic your water is, the more likely you are to have leeching from lead pipes," said Borden.
To participate in the grant program, states must submit a letter of intent to the EPA by January 11, 2019.

The funding will provide advanced support and assistance for communities to combat emerging contaminants, as the State prepares to take the important step of setting enforceable drinking water standards for the emerging contaminants PFOA, PFOS, and 1,4-dioxane.
This funding will ensure communities have the technology and support they need to provide their residents with quality drinking water, creating a safer, healthier New York for all."
We want to make sure that communities have the resources they need to make upgrades to their water treatment systems and ensure the health and safety of residents."
$185 Million Available With today’s announcement, $185 million in grant funding will be available to communities across the state seeking to upgrade their drinking water treatment systems to address the emerging contaminants PFOA, PFOS, and 1,4-dioxane.
In addition to grant programs, the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation administers the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, which offers zero or low-interest financing to communities to further reduce the cost of water infrastructure projects.
Grant applications and additional information are now available here.
The grant awards are as follows: Plainview and Greenlawn Water Districts: $369,000 in grant funding Suffolk County Water Authority: $222,205 in grant funding Hicksville Water District: $162,330 in grant funding Technical Assistance Governor Cuomo has directed the New York State Water Quality Rapid Response Team to provide immediate technical assistance to communities interested in assessing system needs and applying for grant funding.
Drinking Water Quality Council The New York State Drinking Water Quality Council will meet on Wednesday, October 17 at 10:00 AM to address the recent federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry report recommending new minimum risk levels for emerging contaminants like PFOA and PFOS, as well as discuss ways to address a broader group of related per and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals.
The $2.5 billion Clean Water Infrastructure Act of 2017 continues to help local governments pay for water infrastructure construction projects, address water emergencies, and investigate and mitigate emerging contaminants to ensure access to clean, drinkable water for all New Yorkers.
Part of that investment includes the WIIA and IMG programs which, since 2015, have provided $480 million in grant funding supporting nearly $1.9 billion in total project costs for 290 vital drinking and wastewater infrastructure projects in New York State.

Communities have been devastated by the earthquake and tsunami which Disaster Response Officials believe to have killed over 1300 people in Indonesia’s Sulawesi island.
Families now face growing health risks as the full scale of the crisis becomes known.
Save the Children and its local partner in Indonesia are warning of the potential for an outbreak of disease or illness in disaster-ravaged communities, with clean water supplies running low and thousands of families living in makeshift shelters and cramped evacuation centres.
“We’re really concerned that we could start seeing a growing number of children getting sick with illnesses like diarrhoea, as is often the case in the aftermath of crises like this where the scale of damage is so high.
Ensuring children and families have access to sufficient hygiene levels is critical in the humanitarian response, and will go a long way in helping prevent illness and disease, which is the last thing needed by those who have already lost so much.” A team of staff from Save the Children’s partner in Indonesia Yayasan Sayangi Tunas Cilik (YSTC) are in Palu, the capital of central Sulawesi and the epicenter of the crisis.
“The destruction and loss is absolutely heart-wrenching, and the suffering on a scale that’s hard to fathom.
It will be a long recovery process,” Mr Howells said.
“Save the Children, through YSTC, will distribute hygiene items like soap, buckets and jerry cans in the coming days so families can keep clean and store water, as well as plastic sheets and rope for temporary shelter.
Save the Children has several spokespeople available.
To set up interviews contact Evan Schuurman in Melbourne on +61 406 117 937, Fajar Jasmin in Jakarta on +62 811 881 9912, or Antonia Roupell on +44 7879 885327

For September 2018, the Honourable Jane Philpott, Minister of Indigenous Services, provided the following update as part of the department’s monthly report on long-term drinking water advisories: One long-term drinking water advisory was lifted by the Cowichan Tribes in British Columbia on September 12.
The community completed repairs to their water treatment system and back-up power system to restore the supply of clean drinking water.
One long-term drinking water advisory was lifted by Canupawakpa Dakota First Nation on September 28.
Additionally, one short-term advisory that was at-risk of becoming long-term was successfully lifted: Shamattawa First Nation in Manitoba lifted a short-term advisory on September 4 after repairs were made to the community’s water treatment system.
Seventy-one long-term drinking water advisories have now been lifted from public water systems on reserve since November 2015.
Work is already underway to end the remaining 69 long-term advisories, close the gap in water and wastewater infrastructure, and prevent further short-term advisories from becoming long-term.
Four long-term advisories were lifted in September, with 71 having now been lifted since November 2015.
Minister of Indigenous Services Quick Facts A drinking water advisory becomes long-term when it has been in place for over a year.
There were 105 long-term drinking water advisories on public drinking water systems on reserve in November 2015.
Budget 2018 provided an additional $172.6 million over three years to help accelerate progress on lifting drinking water advisories and to ensure more infrastructure projects can be completed prior to 2021.

As the new school year begins, Oakland is carrying out an aggressive strategy to limit lead in water by expanding water testing, installing filtered water stations and adopting a lead limit of 5 parts per billion, lower than the state and federal limit of 15 parts per billion.
Oakland Unified is among the California districts that have adopted lead limits for their drinking water that are more stringent than those in a new state law that requires schools to have their water tested for the toxic metal.
San Diego Unified has adopted a 5 parts per billion limit and is looking to borrow $45 million to further lower its lead standard to 1 part per billion by 2020.
California’s lead testing law, which went into effect on Jan. 1, requires schools to take action only if their drinking water tests with lead levels over 15 parts per billion.
But testing also revealed that 46 schools in Oakland — just over one-third of those tested — had lead levels between 5 and 15 parts per billion.
The district shut off every water outlet where tests found lead levels over 5 parts per billion after lowering its lead limit in February, spokesman John Sasaki said.
Sasaki stressed that the sources of lead contamination at those schools were individual water fixtures — not supply lines and pipes running throughout the building — so high lead levels found at one water fixture do not mean that an entire school’s water supply is contaminated.
Tests recorded lead levels between 5 and 15 parts per billion at 45 San Diego schools.
Push for districts to adopt lower lead levels Rusch said CALPIRG is encouraging “dozens of districts” that still rely on the 15 parts per billion standard, including San Francisco Unified and Los Angeles Unified, to adopt more stringent lead policies.
Of the district’s 20 schools, three tested over 15 parts per billion and three others had lead levels between 1 and 5 parts per billion; the rest were under 1 part per billion.

But earlier this year, Henderson began getting unwanted attention when a failed test of the school’s water well revealed the unfortunate truth that the Lodi Unified campus’ water supply was tainted with an excessive level of a chemical deemed by California to be carcinogenic.
“They’re going to have to do something,” Robert McClellon of San Joaquin County’s Environmental Health Department said this week.
“At this time we are choosing to provide bottled water for drinking, and hand-wash stations for sanitation, as a precaution.” Another sign said bluntly: “Do Not Drink Tap Water Until Further Notice.” In addition to the 59-student school for seventh- and eighth-graders, the Henderson campus is home to Lodi Unified’s Child Welfare and Attendance Office and an independent study program whose participants are not required to come to the school campus.
McClellon shared this week one theory of why an acceptable test in February might have deteriorated into an unacceptable result three months later.
“If you look at the time of year, in February there’s not much agricultural pumping going on,” McClellon said.
Potentially, that could have been the reason.” The tainted water at Henderson School became more widely known after the California School Employees Association, one of the unions that represents school employees, announced earlier this month that it had filed a Williams Act complaint with Lodi Unified on Sept. 11.
Kyle Harvey, the labor relations representative for the CSEA, said he became aware of the water issue after a union member working at Henderson contacted him to say he had been told not to drink the water at the school site.
In a Sept. 11 letter to Lodi Unified, Harvey wrote that the district’s efforts to remediate the problem — serving the bottled water and setting up the cold-wash stations — were inadequate.
“We’ve been working on grants with the state Water Board for an interim solution,” Kahn said.
“If that works, we will be in a place to just allow people at the site to wash their hands in sinks,” Kahn said.