Countywide : Schools Given MWD Water-Study Funds
Four Orange County schools have received “mini-grants” from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to study water-quality issues.
Frank Jahn, a teacher at Esperanza High School in Anaheim, won a $452 grant to combine skills with Bryant Ranch Elementary School teachers Donelda Warhurst and Elizabeth Stumpf for a program on the relationship of the Santa Ana River to North County’s drinking water.
Jahn’s students will create a model showing the geology of the river basin and study how an aquifer helps filter bacteria from water.
Saundra Martin, who teaches fourth grade at San Marino School in Buena Park, will receive a $495 grant to help her class rewrite a fairy tale to stage a musical production, “Little Red Riding Hood and Her Trip to Take Grandma Clean Water.”
Richard Cariker, who teaches fifth grade at Ole Hanson Elementary School in San Clemente, will receive $350 for his students to build a “Water Play Table” for kindergartners at the school. The students will create a closed pipe system that recycles water.
MWD spokeswoman Sue Meltzer said the winners were among a dozen chosen from 100 applications submitted by teachers in five of the six Southland counties that purchase MWD water.
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