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"Water is Life" Children's Water Festival he Freshwater Society was a sponsor of the 7th Annual "Water is x Life" Children's v Water Festival. More v than 1500 fifth o graders attended the L event on a cold, rainy September day at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. The weather did not dampen the students' spirits and their eagerness to learn about freshwater resources. The students came from schools in the seven-county Twin City metro area to get answers to such questions as: What happens to the water that's flushed down a toilet? What can tiny bugs in a river tell you about the river's water quality? How can water's movement through different types of soil affect our drinking water? ~`~ ~~ ~F ~~ v~~ ' ~ /' . , ~ s' ~,,,r.; `~ C1 -~~; c - ~'~=m E ate'' ` r~u~; , t ~~ ~ ti ,~ A yy~ {) .~ f' 1 1 i l E { i' ~ t l y ~.]S ' ~1 ay~ls ~~ y, ~ J:. ~. ,~~ ~ y t ~ r ~; • - ~~~ ~ : ~ Water is Life by Les Kouba What happens when more water comes into a river upstream -when development creates more runoff? - lessons they can teach their parents! They also met Clancy, the mercury-sniffing dog, and discovered how a well-drilling truck works. These lessons were taught at many interactive sessions where the children could get their hands wet. t ~~~;..~ ~ +. ~' ,~ z . i ~~~, ,. ~. ~~ _ ~ ~ _~ -- -~- Jeanne ProK Fifth graders learn how to protect their watershed. For more information, please visit: www.co.carver.mn.us/Divisions/LandWaterServices/ EnviroServices Freshwater Society Sponsors Art Contest Expressing the theme GI~eY ZS L2fe through art he inaugural year of the Freshwater Society's Art Contest produced exceptional artwork that profoundly captured the theme, Water is Life. The Freshwater Society is again offering three scholarships to high school students who find an artful way to express the importance and significance of water to the human condition. As part of a continuing effort to focus on the importance of protecting freshwater resources, the Society sponsors an annual contest that provides a series of scholarships to Minnesota high school students who creatively and meaningfully express, through art, the relationship of water to life. The Freshwater Society, working through the Southeast Service Cooperative (Rochester), the South Central Service Cooperative (Mankato), and the Metro ECSU, has requested instructors in high schools in the designated regions to encourage their students to participate in the contest and describe for them the potential for earning scholarships through creation of art forms that focus on the theme, Water is Life. Acceptable projects include photography, sculpture, drawing, and painting. The theme selected is determined by the individual artist's imagination and creativity, whether it laments the abuse and degradation of water, celebrates its beauty, or reflects its importance to human life and the natural world. The Freshwater Society is looking forward to and encourages young artists' participation in the contest. For more information please visit: www.freshwater.org FACETS October 2005 `" Children participate in "'hands on" activities.