Article from Brighton Standard Blade.
Annual water festival returns to Adams County to teach the importance of water
The Children’s Water Festival is the second oldest water festival in the country. This year’s festival theme is “Our Water-Our Responsibility.” The kids learned how water is a natural resource for humans, people, animals and vegetation and how drinking water nourishes people and produces food.
More than 900 students from 12 schools will attend the water festival. Students and teachers from Platteville, Lochbuie, Henderson, Brighton, Commerce City, Thornton, Frederick, Johnstown-Milliken, and Fort Morgan all attended.
The students, mostly fourth and fifth graders, gathered in 38 classrooms at the Waymire Dome at Adams County Regional Park to learn about the South Platte River Basin groundwater. The students also attended the Water Tunes class, which taught about water and nature with music in Spanish and English.