2025 Water Awareness Student Poster Contest

Fourth Grade Bonsall Elementary Students Take Top Honors

Rainbow Water recognized the winners of the 2025 Water Awareness Poster Contest at the Communications and Customer Service Committee meeting on June 15. The top fourth grade artists were from Bonsall Elementary School and include Melody Byrnes, Natalia Diaz, Abram Marine, and Emmi Perrault.  

Rainbow Water General Manager Jake Wiley recognized the fourth grade student artists for their outstanding artistic achievement and presented each artist with an award, certificate, and art supplies. The four student entries will move forward to be judged with three dozen student entries in the 34th annual regional water poster contest hosted by North County Water Agencies (NCWA). The NCWA comprises 11 water agencies in northern San Diego County that collaborate on community outreach and the annual student poster contest. 

“Every year we partner with elementary schools in our service area to encourage students to show their love of water in the annual student poster contest, and this year we received many entries,” said Jake Wiley, general manager of Rainbow Water." This is one of our favorite outreach programs that allows our team to teach the next generation of water users about the importance of water, our most valuable natural resource.” 

Beginning in January, Rainbow Water works with NCWA to promote the poster contest to fourth graders at public, private, charter, and home schools. The students are tasked to help with this water awareness activity by creating an original poster with the theme "Love Water, Save Water." The posters are submitted to the contest, and water agencies vote for the best entry to be published in 2026 NCWA calendar. The calendar is released at the end of the year with the top winner featured on the front cover. Print copies of the complimentary calendars will be available to the public at the Rainbow Water office at the end of the year.