Charities, residents in winning city eligible for prizes
KCJJ Staff
03/03/19
The city of Iowa City has been invited to take part in a national water conservation challenge.
The annual event is put on by the Wyland Foundation, a California-based non-profit. It has reached out to Iowa City Mayor Jim Throgmorton to have the city take part in this year’s event. All Throgmorton needs to do to participate is issue a statement of support for the challenge and/or the city’s water conservation efforts and encourage the city’s residents to take part in the challenge.
Residents can participate – either at the mayor’s behest or on their own – by going to mywaterpledge.com and selecting Iowa City, then signing onto a number of pledges to conserve water and other natural resources. There is no charge to participate in the community service campaign, either to residents or the city.
Residents of the winning cities of the challenge are eligible for prizes and if the city participates, so are local charities.
The cities are sorted into five categories based on population. In 2018, Westminster, California, won for the 30,000 to 99,999 population group. No cities from Iowa made the top ten in any of the five groups.
The challenge runs during the month of April.
This is the eighth year the Wyland Foundation has hosted the challenge.