Teen Earth Day Program

Madeline Abrams is a junior in high school and she has developed an environmentally-friendly way to capture rain water using discarded plastic water bottles to create an irrigation system for vegetable gardens.

By using empty water bottles, cutting them in half lengthwise, and connecting them with waterproof tape, Madeline has created a gutter system to capture the rainfall that comes off of a roof. She then uses water bottles to create a downspout to direct the water to a holding tank similar to a rain barrel. Here is a link to the website she created to share her invention: http://harvesteverydrop.com

Madeline recently presented her rain harvesting system virtually to 45 communities in New York, California, Uganda, Namibia, Lesotho, Angola and South Africa. Her invention is being shared with villages and communities as a way to conserve water and address the issue of up-cycling plastic waste which has become a major problem in many parts of the world. An article about Madeline’s system was published earlier this month in an international Rotary magazine covering Uganda.

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