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Miami-Dade honors 13 student winners in annual water conservation poster contest
Summary
County officials, including Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and members of the Board, recognized 13 first-place student winners of the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department's Drop Savers poster contest. The program drew 4,400 entries this year and has run for 17 years.
Miami-Dade County leaders on Tuesday recognized 13 first-place student winners in the county's annual water-conservation poster contest, part of a long-running education program run by Miami-Dade Water and Sewer.
Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and several commissioners took the dais to congratulate students from each County Commission district and emphasized water conservation as a vital environmental and public-health message. Amanda Kinnick, interim director of the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department, told the board the contest drew roughly 4,400 entries this year from 42 schools across the county and has been run for 17 years.
Chief Utilities and Regulatory Services Officer Roy Coley told students that per-person daily water use in the county had fallen from about 153 gallons per day to 131 gallons per day since the program began, and he credited public outreach and reinvestment in the utility system for those savings.
Program staff and sponsors were thanked; the county noted two county-level winners also placed at the state level and will appear in the state calendar. The board invited students, families and teachers to an on-site luncheon and a display of winning artwork.
Why it matters: The county frames the contest as a long-term public-education tool tied to measurable reductions in per-capita water use; the department highlighted both conservation and reinvestment in infrastructure as contributors to county water-efficiency improvements.
Ending: The artworks will be displayed in County Hall as part of the county's ongoing public outreach and the winners will be photographed with commissioners before the luncheon.
