Water Conservation Day at the Capitol

The Education Cooperative  recently hosted an art contest for high school juniors and seniors located within our four water districts.. The students were asked to create artwork that depicts an original water conservation message. .


Two students from each water district were selected to  travel to Austin on April 26th. The next day the students displayed their artwork in the halls of the State Capitol at Texas Water Foundations Water Conservation Day at the Capitol. This event is held during the legislative session, so that members of the state legislature are exposed to the water conservation programs in our state.

The afternoon of the 27th, the students  worked as a page for state  their state representative . As a page, the students were on the house floor helping their represenative's staff as directed. All the students had a photo taken with their represenative.
Following their work at the capitol, the students had dinner with former State Representative Gary Walker and Texas Department of Agriculture’s State Marketing Coordinator, Amanda Lyles.

The students’ meals and travel were provided by the their sponsporing UWCD. . We hope the students’ experiences during this event encourage other to participate in future contest.