• Links

  • American Water Works Association
  • Water Environment Federation
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • SC DHEC's Bureau of Water
  • South Carolina Rural Water Association
  • SC Department of Natural Resources

• Environmental Education

  • Learning Web

    A portion of the U.S. Geological Survey web dedicated to K-12 education, exploration, and life-long learning. Explore things on, in, around, and about the Earth such as plants and animals, land, water, and maps. USGS Science for a Changing Mind.

  • Test Your WaterSense

  • Try EPA's new interactive online quiz! Move the water-efficiency hero Flow through water pipes and answer water-efficiency questions while avoiding water-wasting monsters such as Sogosaurus and Drainiac. Use the information you've learned on the WaterSense Web site and test your knowledge of water-using behaviors and common water-saving opportunities.
    

  • Carolina Clear

    Clemson University's "Carolina Clear" is an education program about managing your lawn's natural environment so that it thrives without contributing to Stormwater Runoff Pollution.
    

  • National Water Information System

  • This site provides access to water-resources data collected at approximately 1.5 million sites in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. USGS 02173500 NORTH FORK EDISTO RIVER AT ORANGEBURG, SC

  • Water Resources of the United States

    The USGS mission is to provide water information that benefits the Nation's citizens: Publications, data, maps, and application software. USGS Water-Resources offices are located in every State.

 

April 21, 2009

 

 

SCAWWA Announces Best Tasting Water Contest Winner

(ORANGEBURG, SC) - On Sunday, March 22nd the South Carolina Section of the
American Water Works Association (SCAWWA) held its Best Tasting Water Competition
in conjunction with the 19th Annual South Carolina Environmental Conference. The
South Carolina Environmental Conference is one of the largest environmental
conferences in the Southeast and this year hosted over 1300 attendees from the water
and wastewater profession. The Best Tasting Water Contest was a highlight of this
year’s conference and the first of its kind for South Carolina-based utilities in almost
twenty years.

A total of seventeen drinking water utilities from across South Carolina participated in
this year’s contest. The participating utilities were very diverse with geographical
locations from the coast to the upstate, system sizes from small to very large, and
sources of water from groundwater to large surface water reservoirs. A panel of five
judges, comprised of participants from the conference’s spouses program, tasted the
samples submitted by each of the contest participants.

The SCAWWA is proud to announce that the Department of Public Utilities of the
City of Orangeburg, SC is the first place winner of this year’s Best Tasting Water Competition. We congratulate the Department of Public Utilities on this achievement

and their ongoing commitment to providing safe and great tasting drinking water to the residents of Orangeburg and surrounding communities. We look forward to another successful competition at next year’s South Carolina Environmental Conference.

 

 

EPA WATER FOR Kids!

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has projects, art, and experiments to involve kids and students with environmental protection.