University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, May 3, 1989
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Week promotes awareness of water
bv Max Evans
Kansan staff writer
The next time you turn on the faucet, remember that the water you are drinking could be the same water a dinosaur drank.
That's just one of the water trivia facts that sponsors of the second annual National Drinking Water Week, which began Monday and ends Sunday, are using to promote drink-a water awareness.
the sponsors, a national coalition of industries, government agencies and citizen groups, organized the week to bring attention to drinking water, which sponsors say is often taken for granted.
Locally, Gov Mike Hayden and Mayor Bob Schumm have proclaimed the week "Drinking Water Week."
Debbie Van Sau, assistant director of utilities for Lawrence, said that local activities would include daily tours of the Clinton Water Treatment Plant and an open house Saturday and Sunday at the plant.
Tours at the plant, located on Wakarausa Drive just north of Clinton Parkway, are at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Water facts
A person uses 168 gallons a day.
day.
It takes 11.6 gallons of water to process one chicken.
A toilet uses 2-7 gallons a flush.
A birch tree gives off 70 gallons a day in evaporation.
A chicken is 75 percent water.
An earthworm is 80 percent water.
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It takes 1,500 gallons of water to process a barrel of beer.
tions of water main tapping will be at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday only.
Van Saum said that the purpose of proclaiming "Drinking Water Week" was to promote a better understand and use of processed and pumped into the home.
"We don't just turn on the tap and get free water." Van Saun said. She said that the drought, combined with more federal restrictions placed on water purity, eventually would produce higher prices for water.
water.
"It's not as plentiful as it was a few years ago, and it's not any cheaper to process." Van Saan said.
Charlene Sinard, program director for the Kansas National Resources Council, one of the Kansas sponsors for Drinking Water Week, said that her group hoped to promote public awareness and a need for action in the Legislature concerning water issues.
Stinard said that a national, privately funded environmental group, Renew America, had rated Kansas drinking water 31st in the nation. But when the state law was done on state laws governing water purity and not on water purity itself.
Stinard thought that Kansas' water probably was overrated in the study.
"We have some very good water laws on the books, but enforcement is lacking." Stinard said.
The Environmental Protection Agency also provides a Safe Drinking Water Hot Line for additional information on water purity.
Marymount College to be closed in fall
Marymount College will close its doors to more than 600 students and 115 faculty and staff next fall as a result of the Catholic Diocese of Boise announcement that the school could no longer financially support itself.
by Thom Clark Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
James Hake, monsignor for the diocese, said the four-year college would not reopen in the fall.
said no cars should be moved because the residence hall would be closed for the summer.
"We as a diocese do not have enough finances to feed into the college or support it. It is our hope another owner will wish to assure it as a satellite to their catholic college." Hake said.
Hake said that negotiations were going on to sell the college, but no buver had been found.
She said certain lots were worked on each summer, and they were chosen to be worked on during that time because the work was done.
Marymount, a small Catholic liberal arts institution, has been in Salina since 1922. In 1967, the school offered classes after having been limited to women.
Diane Ashens, an official of the school, said the community would suffer as a result of the school's closing.
"Salina will miss Marymount." Ashsens said. "The Chamber of Commerce estimated that it will have an economic impact on the city of an $11 million investment."
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Ashens said that the college also provided several cultural advantages for the community.
— Diane Ashens Marymount official
"Every year there's something that needs to be done," she said.
The Chamber of Commerce estimated that it will have an economic impact on the city of an $11 million loss.'
She said the school had received its
accreditation for the following year,
allowing students to complete their
majors elsewhere and receive a
Marymount college degree.
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She also said that more than 100 Midwestern colleges and universities attended the school's college fair in February. She said the purpose was to introduce new schools to students who will be forced to go elsewhere next fall.
Hake said the school had been turned over to the diocese five years ago from the Sisters of St. Joseph. The school's enrollment peaked at 87 in 1977; however, it dropped to 609 this spring.
James Seaver, KU professor of history, has attended the college several times during the past several years. He said he was impressed by a conference of state historians he attended at the school.
"I thought it was a well-run school and is a pity that it is closing. The state needs small colleges," Seaver said.
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