SOLANO COUNTY, CA (MPG) - The Solano County Water Agency is now accepting entries from Solano County students in grades 6 through 12 and their sponsoring teachers for the Water Agency’s 15th annual video contest. Winning entries will receive up to $1,500.

This year’s theme is The Water Cycle: Why We Need to Think Outside the Sink. The contest is challenging students to explore the need for Solano County residents to think globally and act locally in order to conserve water.

Students should create a one-minute public service announcement video explaining how we can all work together to conserve water on a broad scale. In their PSAs, we encourage students to think about all the different ways people, industries, and institutions use water, and to offer creative conservation steps for individuals and our society at-large to take.

This year, the Solano County Water Agency will award prizes of $1,500 to the first-place video, $1,000 to the second-place video and $500 to the third-place video. Additionally, the winning entry from each school with ten or more submissions will be awarded a $100 gift card. The three teachers who generate the most student participation in the contest will each win a $200 gift card.

Entries will be judged by a panel of water efficiency experts and community leaders for content, accuracy, and response to the assigned theme; entertainment value and originality; videography, style and organization; and audio/sound quality.

Complete information about the 2025 video contest, water conservation information, samples of past winning videos, and the 2025 entry packet is available at https://sites.google.com/view/solanowatervideocontest/.

Entries can be submitted through e-mail to [email protected], via Google Drive using the form found on the contest website, or on a USB flash drive via US mail or delivered in person to the Solano Resource Conservation District office in Dixon. Release forms and entry forms must accompany video submissions in order for them to be considered. All entries and paperwork must be received by 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 18.

Contact Shea Kinser at Solano Resource Conservation District at [email protected] with questions or for more information.