Q1.
Design a poster in the space below, encouraging people to preserve and clean old water tanks.
Include:
• Topic: ‘Save Our Water Tanks — A Community Awareness Campaign’
• A catchy slogan (e.g., ‘Save Tanks, Save Lives!’).
• A few bullet points on why tanks are important.
• An invitation to join a cleaning drive or awareness programme (mention the place and time of the cleaning drive).
Answer
How to design the poster, step by step:
- Step 1 — the topic at the top. Write the topic in the biggest letters on the page, right across the top. Use a bold colour.
- Step 2 — the slogan under it. A slogan is a short line that sticks in the mind. Keep it to four or five words. Rhyme or repetition helps.
- Step 3 — a picture in the middle. Draw an old tank, a bucket and a brush, or a drop of water with a smile. Keep it simple and large.
- Step 4 — the bullet points. Three or four short lines telling people why tanks matter. Not sentences that run on — short, punchy lines.
- Step 5 — the invitation at the bottom. This is the part people act on, so give the place, the day, the date and the time. Never leave these out.
- Step 6 — check. Can it be read from the back of the room? If not, your letters are too small.
What a good poster needs: few words, big letters, one clear picture, plenty of empty space — and the date, time and place of the drive. A poster is not a paragraph.
Sample answer — a full poster you can copy and decorate:
SAVE OUR WATER TANKS
A Community Awareness Campaign
“Save Tanks, Save Lives!”
A clean tank today is clean water tomorrow.
[ Picture: an old round brick tank, with a girl and a boy scrubbing it clean.
A smiling water drop stands beside them holding a brush. ]
A Community Awareness Campaign
“Save Tanks, Save Lives!”
A clean tank today is clean water tomorrow.
[ Picture: an old round brick tank, with a girl and a boy scrubbing it clean.
A smiling water drop stands beside them holding a brush. ]
Why our old water tanks matter
- They store the rain for the months when no rain falls.
- They give us clean water to drink, to cook with and to farm with.
- They keep the extra rainwater off our streets, so the roads do not flood.
- They are part of our heritage — our elders built them with their own hands.
- A dirty tank makes people ill. A clean tank keeps a whole village well.
JOIN OUR TANK CLEANING DRIVE!
Where: The old village tank, behind the Panchayat Bhavan
Day and date: Sunday, 16 November
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Bring a bucket, a brush and a cap. Tea and water will be provided.
Organised by the Eco Club, Government Primary School
No Water, No Life. Every Drop Counts!
Where: The old village tank, behind the Panchayat Bhavan
Day and date: Sunday, 16 November
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Bring a bucket, a brush and a cap. Tea and water will be provided.
Organised by the Eco Club, Government Primary School
No Water, No Life. Every Drop Counts!
Why old tanks need cleaning, not just building: Over the years mud, leaves, plastic and algae collect in a tank. The water turns green and smells, and people stop using it. Then the tank is forgotten and finally filled in. Cleaning an old tank is cheaper and quicker than digging a new one — and it saves something our grandparents built.
More slogans you may use: “Clean the Tank, Thank the Rain!” · “Our Tank, Our Pride” · “Save Every Drop” · “A Tank in Time Saves the Village” · “Water Wasted is Water Lost Forever”.