1. Water in Finland
Eveliina Hiltunen,
Krista Karppinen
and Hanna
Pehkonen
from
North Karelian
College
Outokumpu,
FINLAND

2. About Finland

Population: 5,4 million people

Locates in Northern Europe between
Sweden and Russia

Four seasons

Known in the world from Moomins,
Nokia, Marimekko and nowadays...
Angry Birds.

3. About Outokumpu

Population: about 8000 people

Famous for it's history with mining copper

Area of Outokumpu is 584.06 km2

Amount of the water areas of that figure is
138.22 km2

4. About our school

Belongs to North Karelia Municipal Education and
Training Consortium.

The North Karelia Municipal Education and Training
Consortium have been awarded twice by the Ministry of
Education: once in year 2004 and after that in year
2008.

Altogether there are over 7 500 students in our
concern.

In our school, in North Karelia college Outokumpu,
there are few hundread students in Cultural section.

Outokumpu is a good place to study; You can
consentrate on your study, but You can have some
funtime with your friends, if you got the will for it.

5. What we do in our school

6. What we do in our school

7. Water in Outokumpu

In Outokumpu there are
111 water systems.

The largest lake is
Juojärvi (219,54km2)
with the longest
coastline (708,27km).

The deepest lake is
Rikkavesi (66,85m).

Fourth of the surface
area of Outokumpu
consist of water.

8. Water treatment plant
 One water treatment plant in Outokumpu.
 Water is clean and drinkable straight from the tap.
 In Finland, the water in lakes and ponds is drinkable
without any specific proceeding

9. Natural water in Finland
 Finland: the land of
thousands lakes.
 You can swim in the
lakes but don’t drink
the water.
 Some places in Finland
there’s fountains and
streams where the water
is crystal clear and
you can drink from
them.

10. Amount of water in Finland

The water never
ends in Finland.

It rains from
spring to
autumn, but in
wintertime it’s
snowing.

11. Quality of water in Finland

In households the quality of water is
high

You can drink running water from the
water pipes because it’s cleaned in the
water treatment plant

12. Quality of water in Finland

In Finland people
don't drink much
bottled water,
because we get
clean water from
tabs

Bottled water on
sale, but people
buy more
carbonated water
than still water

13. Alternative source for water?
 Water is pumped straight from the
ground to water treatment plant
 No alternative source needed

14. The way of the water

After the water
is used, it goes
through the
sewage drains to
the sewage
treatment plant

After water is
chemically
cleaned, it goes
back to the
lakes