Irvine Ranch Water District staffed a booth at the Woodbridge Village Fair in Irvine. Bottled water and items with a water conservation message were distributed.

Irivne Ranch Water District sponsored a booth at the Children's Water Festival in April. More than 700 students from all over Orange County passed though the booth and learned about groundwater by building edible aquifers of ice cream, soda and sprinkles.

IRWD Employees Raise Record Funds in 2005 United Way Drive
Irvine Ranch Water District employees dug deep and contributed a record $37,674 to the 2005 United Way campaign.

This amount was $3,674 over the target goal of $34,000 set by the Human Resources Department.

United Way Orange County is the leader in identifying and responding to the wide array of critical issues affecting the quality of life for those in need in the county. Currently, United Way is partnered with 125 organizations that receive funding.

Irvine Unified School District's Ask-A-Scientist Night
Members of IRWD's Water Quality and Engineering departments participated in the Irvine Unified School District's Ask-A-Scientist Night in October. Alex Murphy of water quality assists a student with science project ideas.

Cleaning Upstream
Volunteers fan out along San Diego Creek in Irvine to pick up trash during the eighth annual Inner-Coastal Cleanup Day on Sept. 18. Ocean-bound tributaries, such as San Diego Creek, are cleaned of trash that would otherwise end up in the ocean. IRWD has hosted the creek cleanup site adjacent the Michelson Water Reclamation Plant for the past five years. It was one of 24 such sites countywide. There were 210 volunteers at the IRWD site who over the course of three hours filled 280 bags with trash and another 100 bags with recyclables collected from the creek. All ages joined in. Volunteers were given IRWD's Aqua Splash bottled water.

Julihanna Cortes is ready to hand out bottled water and brochures at the Earth Day event at the Peter and Mary Muth Interpretive Center in Newport Back Bay.

Another Successful Blood Drive!
IRWD employees give blood twice a year at drives organized by IRWD's Human Resources Dept. The last blood drive collected 34 units of blood.

The blood collected is used exclusively for the 462-bed UCI Medical Center, which is the county's only university hospital. It offers a full scope of acute and general care services, including a neuro-psychiatric center, regional burn center, Level I trauma center and cancer center.