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Northwest Arkansas: Do Your
“B
eaver Lake. We drink it every day.” That’s
the core message of Beaver Water Dis-
trict’s (hgid1a9p://www.bwdh2o.org) latest educagid19fonal
outreach campaign, which kicked off on Christmas
Day 2009.
“This is a call to acgid19fon,” says Alan D. Fortenberry
P.E., CEO of the District. “Beaver Lake is our drink-
ing water. Clean water is vital for public health.
These videos address concepts such as how the
lake came to be built and how runoff from storms
A news
can harm the lake. The idea is that the more peo-
ple know, the more they will care and do some-
thing about it.”
The campaign features four 30 second videos that
help build awareness about the importance of
site (hgid1a9p://www.bwdh2o.org) and you’ll find links
NW
clean drinking water. Each video closes with a call
to gid19fps about how to keep polluted storm water
to acgid19fon: “Do your part to protect Beaver Lake.”
out of Beaver Lake.
Spend some gid19fme at Beaver Water District’s web-
“We’re excited about this campaign,” said Amy
Click these
photos
to watch
videos >
In the 1950s, visionary leaders in North- We all live in watersheds. Beaver Lake’s wa-
west Arkansas saw the need for a secure tershed includes parts of Benton, Washing-
water supply. ton, Madison, and Carroll coungid19fes.
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