Success StoryLyon County 4-H Promotes Drinking Water



Lyon County 4-H Promotes Drinking Water

Author: Wanda Paris

Planning Unit: Lyon County CES

Major Program: Health 4-H Core Curriculum

Plan of Work: Making Healthy Choices

Outcome: Long-Term Outcome

As a member of the District Health Council, the 4-H agent was part of a committee established to move toward placing water coolers with filling stations in the school to promote hydration with water instead of sugary drinks and to decrease the use of plastic water bottles.  Lyon County 4-H collaborated with other groups to help fund a water cooler/filling station which now has a green 4-H Clover.   Reusable water bottles with the 4-H logo were supplied to each student in the high school to help with the promotion.  Inside each bottle a 4-Her placed a card with information on hydration with water on one side and the importance of recycling on the other side.  Students were excited to receive the bottles and to begin using the new filling station which has a counter to tell the number of bottles filled.  It has become a campaign to see how many bottles can be saved from the landfill before the end of the school year.  With each bottle filled, a student is drinking water verses sugary drinks and a plastic bottle is kept out of the landfill.







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