News Release from
The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 16, 2007
Contact: Linda Dannehl, UNL Extension
(308) 995-4222

2007 Water Jamboree Set for April 25-26

Can you name the main processes in the hydrologic cycle?

School children attending the Water Jamboree at Harlan County Reservoir on April 25 and 26 will know, and they’ll learn many other facts about water after attending the Water Jamboree at Harlan County Reservoir on April 25-26.

A special guest will be Attorney General Jon Bruning, who will visit the South-Central 4-H Camp at 10 a.m. on April 25. The attorney general will observe the activities and present the Water Jamboree’s planning committee with a $3,000 check to help support efforts to educate the area’s youth about the importance of our water resources. The funds are part of an environmental lawsuit settlement and are dedicated to environmental education.

Each year since 1993, the planning committee (comprised of representatives from the event’s sponsoring organizations) organizes a fun and educational day for fourth- through sixth-grade students from schools located in the Tri-Basin Natural Resources District and the Lower Republican Natural Resources District in south-central Nebraska, and Smith and Phillips counties in north-central Kansas.

Students will be involved in many hands-on interdisciplinary water activities related to aquatic life, recreational uses, water quality, non-point source pollution, irrigation, historical aspects of water, plants and water, and how water quality affects wildlife.

The Water Jamboree is a cooperative effort by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension, Kansas State Research and Extension, The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District, Lower Republican Natural Resources District, Tri-Basin Natural Resources District, USDA/Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Events are held at the 4-H camp site on the north side of Harlan County Reservoir, at the lake’s Gremlin Cove campground and below the dam. More than 600 students are expected to attend during the two-day event. Sessions begin at 9:30 a.m. and conclude at 2:10 p.m. on each day.

Oh, and by the way, the answer to the question posed in the first paragraph is: condensation, precipitation, infiltration, runoff, and evapotranspiration.

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Note to Media -- Schools from the following schools are scheduled to attend: