Transmittal letter
Mr Brad Blackstone
Senior Lecturer
Singapore Institute of Technology
SIT@ Dover
10 Dover Drive
Singapore 138868
Dear Mr. Blackstone
Proposal for reducing water usage for Future SIT campus in Punggol
This letter is to inform you of our acknowledgement and response to your letter of authorization. We present to you, as attached, our proposal to help address the lack of water saving technology for taps in SIT and to create awareness about the lack of water conservation among SIT’s students and staff.
Recently, there has been news of the Linggui Reservoir in Johor, Malaysia suffering from severe loss of water mainly due to high levels of evaporation and low levels of rainfall. The reservoir allows Singapore to extract up to 60% of Singapore’s water needs. Although there is no worry over Singapore’s water security with the help of the desalination and NEWater plants, it is important for Singaporeans to do more to reduce unnecessary water wastage.
With a view to reduce those water wastage in SIT’s future Campus in Punggol which is going to be the size of 2 times of all current campuses, our team is proposing a solution to install a water saving nozzle on all water taps in toilets. As the nozzle can be installed on any new or existing taps, our solution will work in a way to reduce the water wastage. Through this solution, we hope to help SIT play an important part in reducing unnecessary water wastage and at the same time SIT can reduce costly water bills resulted from those wastage.
The team would like to thank you for taking your time to read our proposal. We hope that you will consider our proposed solution for SIT and us to close the gap in the lack of water conservation and taking a part in helping Singapore to save water.
Yours sincerely,
Clarabelle Chui
Team Leader
On behalf of Team Misty Trio
Email to request for interview
Email to interview estates management:
To: dawn.ho@singaporetech.edu.sg
Subject: Request for Advice - Water Conservation
Dear Ms Ho,
I am Clarabelle Chui (16SSB012D),
a first year student studying in SIT Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering
(SIE) (Building Services). I’m currently attending Effective Communication
class under Brad Blackstone. The purpose of writing this email is to seek
advice from you in regards to the issue we have on hand after a discussion with
Mr. Blackstone. In a team of three, we were tasked with a project to identify a
problem and propose a solution to solve it. The problem that our group decided
to tackle is the lack of water conservation among the users in the school.
From our understanding, the
students and staff in the school tend to think water conservation is not
important and would take the water we have for granted. One major issue is the
use of the water taps in the toilet. Even though the taps are automated to
conserve water, users tend to abuse this system to allow continuous water flow.
This defeats the purpose of the automated water tap sensor system.
To solve this problem, we are
planning to suggest the use of a more standardized system for taps which
include the use of the Altered: Nozzle in the campus. An Altered: Nozzle
is a simple device that can be fitted to the existing tap nozzles so that water
can be turned into mist. This can conserve water up to 98%.
Our group would like to consult you and obtain more information in
regards to water consumption so as to have a better understanding before we
prepare our proposal. The main questions that we require clarifications are as
follow:
Is the school implementing any water conservation ideas/methods?
If so what is/are they?
How much is the water usage and amount paid every month for the
past 1 year?
The reason for using different types of tap. Eg. Lever, push and
sensor for tap.
The type of tap selected for the new campus in Punggol.
How big would the new campus be?
We would appreciate if you could share your knowledge with us
regarding the above questions. Alternatively, if needed, kindly assist us to
direct these questions to the relevant people.
Thank you.
Best Regards,
Clarabelle Chui
Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering
(Building Services)
Email to The Altered:Company for more information
