This year marks 40 years of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA). It was established in 1985 to provide wholesale water and sewer services to 3.1 million people and more than 5,000 large industrial users in 61 Metropolitan Boston communities. While Natick has its own water resource, the town's sewage is handled by MWRA.
The theme of this year's poster contest asked kids to use their creative skills to make a poster highlighting one or more of the projects that MWRA has been involved in since its creation. Over the past 40 years, the MWRA has been involved in many groundbreaking projects, including the clean-up of Boston Harbor, taking sludge and turning it into fertilizer, and the removal of a dam. It has also stewarded some of the nation's cleanest and best tasting drinking water, so we had plenty of inspiration to draw from.
Many kids focused on the clean water endeavors for people and wildlife with slogans like, "No poop in my soup" and "No pee in my sea" with illustrations to match. Other kids featured the importance of flowing water in nature and wrote messages to encourage people to leave the dam building to the beavers.
We will be submitting these posters to the contest to be judged and are hopeful that we may have a winner or an honorable mention among these great entries (we have had one or two winners in the past). A contest like this is a good opportunity to have kids learn how to handle both joy and disappointment with grace. Congratulating someone else for winning an award is the best way to combat your own disappointed feelings.
Enjoy the posters below!
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