Four plastic water cisterns are set up on tables at the school's entrance, along with bars of soap.
In both settings, water was scarce and residents used a variety of water storage containers, including plastic/earthen pots, plastic drums, and cement cisterns.
They drop litter, which is harmful ("Cattle are dumb they'll eat plastic water bottles") and break cisterns trying to get fresh water.
Put a plastic container or "hippo" in the cistern, which restricts the amount of water used with each flush.
The tap is a modified flush tank cistern float valve (PREFERABLY PLASTIC).
One reader commented that instead of using such gadgets, she fills up a 1.5 litre plastic water bottle and pops it in the cistern, noting that it does the same and job and that the plastic does not degrade.
The problem with conventional systems is that storage is expensive, and so if people can't afford to build a cistern, or invest in a large plastic storage tank, they don't have many options.
I invest in a Hippo, a plastic bag that takes up space in my loo cistern to slash the flush volume.
She took the soap dish and banged on the pipe that led down from the cistern to the back of the toilet: a thin, unsatisfying sound, of plastic against plastic.
Rainwater is gathered in a 1,000-gallon 1,000-gallontern on the roof, warmed and relayed to the pools through plasticoncrete
