(Ufsm 2003)Texto IWater coolers to help pupils thi

(Ufsm 2003)

Texto I

Water coolers to help pupils think

A campaign has been launched in Yorkshire schools to encourage children to drink more water to increase their concentration.

Studies have found that children who are dehydrated do not work as well in the classroom as those who have drunk the recommended eight glasses of water a day.

Yorkshire Water has run a pilot project in Leeds in ¹which water coolers were put in three schools.

There was a significant increase in the amount of water the children drank and the company now plans to put the coolers in every primary school in Yorkshire over the next three years.

One of the schools involved in the pilot was Otley Ashfield Primary in north Leeds.

Head teacher Yvonne Davison said she supported the initiative "wholeheartedly".

"All brain activity is neurological and is a chemical activity which doesn't function without water.

"Children who are dehydrated don't learn well."

Dr Martin Schweiger, a consultant at Leeds Health Protection Unit, said dehydration in childhood can cause serious health problems in adults.

"If children don't drink enough water, the delicate enzyme systems their bodies depend on start to get out of kilter.

"And long-term problems of infection, kidney disease and high blood pressure are the price many people pay for drinking too little as a child."

"The time has come to take the tap water out of the toilets"

Kevin White Yorkshire Water

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid, 17/6/2002.

 

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