Schools
A Drinking Fountain Helps Chatham High Go Green
A new drinking fountain at Chatham High is designed for student to refill their water bottles.
Chatham Patch readers know about the at . What they may not know about is an improvement made to the school's interior.
A new drinking fountain was purchased with $1,800 donated to the school by the Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO) last year and installed before the start of the 2011-12 school year. The fountain has a dispense mechanism capable of filling water bottles, allowing students to reuse and recycle water bottles.
Karen Jackson, the president of the Chatham High PTO, said the donation was suggested by the PTO's environmental committee. "Normally we give the high school a dollar figure for school gifts and the school comes back with ideas," Jackson said. "Sometimes we have a few ideas, and we talk about it until we have a list we're both happy with."
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Once the gift is decided on, the PTO approves the gift by a vote.
The new drinking fountain is "part of an ongoing effort to continue to encourage the kids to drink tap rather than bottled water, and in general to think and act in a more environmentally responsible way," Jackson said.
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Besides the fountain, the school has also in the last year.
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