Water fountain at Gems Legacy School – in pictures
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Students refilling their bottles from the water fountain at the Gems Legacy School in Dubai. All photos: Pawan Singh / The National -
Gems Legacy School has 16 water stations in place and is to install another 12 this year. -
The school's first water fountains were introduced in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic and it has now installed contactless water dispensers. -
The water bottle project comes after Dubai's move to place a levy on single-use plastic bags. -
Asha Alexander, Gems Legacy School principal, with a pupil who is refilling her bottle from a water fountain at the campus. -
The principal said the school would also no longer accept any single-use plastic packaging or bags, as part of its environmental message to pupils. -
Pupils at the school collect discarded plastic bottles from their homes and neighbourhoods for a project called 'Simply Bottles'. -
Under this scheme, plastic bottles are collected, recycled and made into yarn that is used to make clothes. -
Children are also going to restaurants near the school asking owners not to supply food in plastic bags. -
Pupils are also being encouraged to pack lunch in reusable boxes as part of continuing environmental education at schools in the emirate.
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