Perdue announces $2000 water conservation contest for grade-schoolers

[donsu]

http://www.atlantawatershortage.com/


A press release from the Governors office today unveiled a contest for 3rd, 4th and 5th graders to develop a water conservation plan for their community. The contest winner will receive $2000 to implement the plan in their area. You can view the full PDF of the announcement here.

While I think that encouraging kids to think more about water conservation is a good thing, Perdue really needs to start doing things that will make a real difference now. So far this week we’ve had this and the controversial prayer vigil. That’s about it. Where’s a real plan? I’d like to see the governor develop and share two things:

1 - A plan to conserve water and/or get more water to the area to prevent disaster. “Pray for rain” has been his best plan so far.
2 - In the event that we run out of water, develop a plan to deal with the aftermath, similar to how Lawrenceville already has.

Contests like this are cute, but time is running out.
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shouldn't this contest be for the adults?



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and Perdue said yesterday that they had 79 days of water left

Decision on flow reductions due tomorrow, and we have 79 days left
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[kestrel91316]

1. "......shouldn't this contest be for the adults?...."

One would certainly think so.

Personally, I like the prayer thing. Let them just keep doing THAT and nothing else. I'm sure it will work.