Taiwan Church News 3280 Edition January 5 - 11, 2015 Church Ministry Let Us Turn Stink Drainage Ditch Into Living Water River Reported by Simon Lin On December 28th 2014, the Ailing Association of Lord's Grace Bread of Life Christian Church, together with Miaopu Montessori School(MMS), launches a community project entitled -Let Us Turn Stink Drainage Ditch Into Living Water River - to clean up Hsu-suei drainage ditch 200 meters away from the MMS school gate. This is a two-years project, expecting to forge an eco-friendly water system to the community's environment. Newly elected Changhua County Magistrate, Mr Wei Ming-ku, with a congress woman and many county council members are invited to witness this pioneering educational project within the community. As surrounded by many plating and metalwork factories, which arbitrarily released their wasted water and pollutants into Yonah-chu River and poisoned the neighboring farm lands, MMS started a patrol team 8 years ago recruiting teachers, students and parents to clean up the factory wastes in the river, bring in the green plants along the river and set up a waste water filtering station. About 13 years ago, in order to let the sewage water, rain water and drinking water circulating ecologically in a multi-layers' biological environments, MMS also started to build up an eco-friendly water system in the school. Now, these water can be used to grow the vegetables and the pastures. And the water sprayed on the pastures can be collected in the underground water system which can be utilized further in a circulating system. In order to improve the quality of the daily lives of local community, this ecologically revealing project, Let Us Turn Stink Drainage Ditch Into Living Water River, is expected to export this water-recycling model built at MMS and help local habitats understand how to establish an eco-friendly water system well utilizing the extant ditches and environments. In the future, hopefully by this pioneering ecological project to build more ponds and natural reservoirs as filter, more rain water could be stored, the overtly extracted underground water in Changhua county could be compensated, and the vibrant life and food-chain in the river could be restored. Translated by Peter Wolfe |