Bluewater, Needham Elementary School Join in Promoting Water Awareness

BLUEWATER, HILLSIDE ELEMENTARY JOIN IN PROMOTING WATER AWARENESS

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June 07, 2010
NEEDHAM – Bluewater CEO Dan Potter announced today that his company had joined with students from Hillside Elementary School to deliver a donation to the UNICEF Tap Project. Bluewater Chairman James L. J. Nuzzo delivered a check for $404.00, representing one dollar for every foot of drinking water pipe that bluewater has located or lined so far this year. “Our company provides trenchless pipe rehabilitation and repair as well as septic services for commercial, residential and governmental customers, so the efforts of these kids to promote clean water awareness really grabbed our attention,” said Nuzzo. “They inspired us to pledge a donation for every foot of drinking water pipe we fix in 2010, and we wanted to show our appreciation to them before the school year ended.”

To welcome bluewater’s participation in the program, second and fourth grade students at Hillside provided a water awareness presentation and performed a “buddy” chant and an original “Water Song” in a reception on May 27, 2010.  The students had used the same program to promote contributions by patrons of Needham restaurants and cafés.  To date, the students have raised over $3,000 for a UNICEF initiative designed to make clean water accessible to millions of children around the world.  “Visiting with the kids and seeing their show was incredibly fun,” said Nuzzo.  “Their enthusiasm is contagious, and they’re delivering an important message about the need to conserve, protect and maintain our water supply and water infrastructure.”  Nuzzo said he had asked the kids for a copy of their slide presentation and a recording of the Water Song, both of which he plans to make available on the company’s website, www.bluewatercorp.com.

The Hillside water awareness curriculum was developed by Grade Two teacher George Goneconto and his wife Si Si Goneconto, as well as Grade 4 teacher Amy Cicala. “Since bluewater is involved in several different aspects of water infrastructure, we’ll be asking them back in the fall to participate in classroom discussions. It’s a good fit with the curriculum we’ve developed.”

“We have facilities in Leominster, West Yarmouth, Hanover, Lawrence and Westborough, but we’re headquartered in Needham, which is how we heard about what the Hillside School students were doing,” said Potter. “It’s a wonderful program, and it would be great to see it spread to other schools around the state and region.  As we all learned from the recent pipe break that cut off water for millions of people in eastern Massachusetts, we can’t afford to take water infrastructure for granted.  These kids are helping everybody in their community understand the importance of their water transport, treatment and sewer systems – and we applaud them.”

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