An annual art calendar contest in Florida’s Polk County gets students and teachers thinking about water and its importance in their lives.
The contest was started in 2003 by Jacqueline Hollister, environmental specialist for the utility, who recognized a need for water conservation education in the Polk County schools.The county, in Central Florida, serves 755,000 residents in a 2,000-square-mile area, and more people move in every day. The Southwest Regional Wastewater Treatment facility in the county uses a 41-mile piping system to distribute recycled wastewater for irrigation at more than 1,800 homes, two golf courses, a park and Tampa Electric Company
