Published: March 31, 2006
Children's Water Education Festival Hosted by Groundwater Guardian Team
Next week, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 10th Annual Children's Water Education Festival is to be held at Hidden Valley Park in Irvine, California.
More than 7,500 third, fourth and fifth-grade students, teachers and parents will learn about water resources, the environment and recycling at the two-day event hosted by the Orange County Water District Groundwater Guardian Team.
Approximately 64 schools representing 20 cities throughout Orange County will attend the event.
The Children's Water Education Festival teaches future environmentalists through hands-on learning activities. The festival, in its 10th year of educating Orange County's students, is a fun, environmental-education field trip designed to teach elementary school children about the interdependence of water, soil, plants, trees, animals and humans. The goal of the festival is to provide the youth with the tools they need to protect and improve our environment each and everyday.
Volunteers from more than 65 public and private organizations will sponsor booths providing interactive presentations for the classes to visit during the field trip.
The support of these organizations is essential to ensure continued success of the festival. Without these in-kind, financial and time committing contributions, many Orange County students would not be able to participate in the event.
Tuesday, April 4, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
8800 Irvine Center Drive, Irvine, California
Over the two days, thousands of children in festival t-shirts will be crawling through tunnels, passing leaky buckets of water over their heads or creating an aquifer out of ice cream and lemon-lime soda.
The festival is the largest interactive field trip of its kind. Organizers say the best photo opportunity time is between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
The Orange County Water District organizers Rebecca Long (714 318-8920) and Lisa Sanchez (714 234-8105) have more information.
The Orange County Water District (OCWD) manages and protects the huge groundwater basin underlying north and central Orange County. OCWD is a special district, separate from the County of Orange or any city government. It was created by the California Legislature in 1933 to oversee Orange County's groundwater basin. The groundwater basin supplies more than half of the water needs for 2.3 million residents in the cities of Anaheim, Buena Park, Cypress, Costa Mesa, Fountain Valley, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Irvine, La Palma, Los Alamitos, Newport Beach, Orange, Placentia, Santa Ana, Seal Beach, Stanton, Tustin, Villa Park, Westminster and Yorba Linda. To learn more about water log on to www.ocwd.com.
Schools taking part on each day are listed below
April 4, 2006
Anaheim
Adelaide Price Elementary
Anaheim Discovery Christian School
Paul Revere Elementary
Brea
Country Hills Elementary
Buena Park
Crescent Avenue Elementary
Costa Mesa
California Elementary
Christ Lutheran School
St. Joachim School
St. John the Baptist School
Wilson Elementary
Fountain Valley
Cox Elementary
Plavan Elementary
Fullerton
Maple Elementary
Valencia Park Elementary
Woodcrest Elementary
Garden Grove
Murdy Elementary
Huntington Beach
Sunview Elementary
William T. Newland Elementary
Irvine
Eastshore Elementary
Turtle Rock Elementary
Lake Forest
Abiding Savior School
La Palma
George B. Miller Elementary
Los Alamitos
Los Alamitos Elementary
Orange
St. John Lutheran School
Placentia
St. Joseph School
Santa Ana
Pio Pico Elementary
Remington Elementary
Santiago Elementary
April 5, 2006
Anaheim
Acaciawood Elementary
Dr. Albert Schweitzer Elementary
Dr. Jonas Salk Elementary
Glenview Elementary
Prince of Peace School
St. Catherine's Military Academy
St. Justin Martyr School
Zion Lutheran School
Brea
Laurel Elementary
Buena Park
Charles G. Emery Elementary
Pendleton Elementary
Costa Mesa
California Elementary
Page Private School
Park Private Day School
Cypress
A.E. Arnold Elementary
Fountain Valley
Moiola Elementary
Fullerton
Annunciation Catholic School
St. Juliana School
Topaz Elementary
Garden Grove
King of Kings School
Huntington Beach
Grace Lutheran School
Irvine
Meadow Park Elementary
Lake Forest
Rancho Canada Elementary
Midway City
Hayden Elementary
Mission Viejo
dePortola Elementary
Orange
St. Paul Lutheran School
Rancho Santa Margarita
Mission Hills Christian School
Trabuco Mesa Elementary
San Clemente
Journey Elementary
Santa Ana
Carl Harvey Elementary
Diamond Elementary
Franklin Elementary
Garfield Elementary
Jefferson Elementary
Madison Elementary
Taft Elementary
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