How and When Did Water School Begin? 

SAWIG places very high value on the education of local youth.  The Town of Stratford provided water conservation education to Grade 5 students at Stratford Elementary for 4 years; the program was brought into the classrooms over a few days and the children were taught the basics of water use and how to conserve.

Fast forward to 2011; an initiative was developed to expand the current program to include watershed education. As a fun side note, Kelley Farrar (previous Watershed Coordinator) remembers how the entire process began… “I remember when Billy (Ramsay) came into my office, sat down, looked at the map on my wall and said “you know, I don’t really know what a watershed is. And if the Stratford water technician doesn’t know what a watershed is, I bet a lot of other people don’t either”. This was the start of a conversation about how to teach people about watersheds. Thus, water school as it is now was created.”