Education and Community Outreach

Did you know that most human activity on land has an impact on our drinking water? It is because of this close link between our personal lives and habits, the environment, and our water resources that Aquarion Water Company of Connecticut has created an educational program that helps students to understand and accept the role each person must play to protect the quality of all water.

Offered free of charge to schools within our service area, this program focuses on water science and the environment, and has been developed to supplement existing school curriculum. It is designed to be hands-on for grades Kindergarten through eighth grade, and can be presented in the classroom by a Aquarion Water Company of Connecticut water quality expert. The program also offers tours of our water treatment plant, visits to our fish ladder, and hikes through our watershed.

At Aquarion Water Company of Connecticut, we are committed to responsibly invest in the communities in which we live and work. In fact, it's an integral part of our mission. The following describes some of the many community programs that we sponsor.

Aquarion Water Company recently participated in Stratford Senior Services' "Fashion Show of Uniform Awareness." Uniformed employees of local utility companies as well as delivery services and municipal personnel modeled their uniforms and displayed their identification badges in an effort to educate seniors.

Aquarion employee Tony Dastoli modeled Aquarion's uniform, which consists of an orange shirt with the Aquarion logo and an identification badge.

Members of the Senior Center enjoyed the water bottles donated by Aquarion.

School –Business Partnership Program  at Barnum Elementary School, Bridgeport, strives to help enhance students' academic, social and emotional growth with a variety of projects and activities, including incentive programs such as a year-end picnic Project Santa and cultural enrichment programs such as Hispanic Heritage Month.

Read-A-Loud Day, an annual event sponsored by the Bridgeport Public Schools that invites Aquarion Water Company of Connecticut employees into classrooms throughout the city to read to children — a worthwhile and much-anticipated activity for both the students and our employees.

Aquarion Water Company of Connecticut has adopted the Vocational Aquaculture School. Here, the Aquarion employees volunteer to conduct programs that aim to enhance technical and science-related studies that meet the educational needs ot students in Fairfield County.

Junior Achievement of Western Connecticut, Inc. Aquarion Water Company of Connecticut for several years has sponsored a team of Bridgeport area students, with employee volunteers serving as advisors to those youngsters.

Aquarion Water Company of Connecticut In-School Education Program A Big Hit

Elementary school teachers are raving about Aquarion Water Company of Connecticut's program and are already registering their students for lessons and water filtration facility tours for the fall semester. Teachers who are interested in Aquarion Water Company of Connecticut's education program may contact Jennifer Bernheim at jbernheim@aquarionwater.com or 203-336-7699.

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