DALHART, TEXAS -- Fourth graders from around the Panhandle had the opportunity to play with water while learning a valuable lesson.
Students that participated in the Make a Splash Water Festival spent the day visiting different stations to learn about water and water conservation.
"At this age they're easy to engage with the activities that are hands-on and that are fun. It's a great time to really start to develop habits and to develop an understanding about things that will really lead to lifestyle changes in the future. They will take this information home and they'll share it with their families," said Kirk Welch, North Plains Conservation Public Information Manager.
One of the stations students participated in informed them about the water cycle.
"If you look around us we don't see a lot of expansive lakes or rushing rivers, so we don't have a lot of surface water. That ground water is that much more important because we don't have surface water, and over the last four months we've had of the driest periods in the last 50 years in this area so it couldn't be more important that it is right now," said Welch.
The next water festival will be hosted in Dumas on April 29.
