Olivia Alirez, a fifth-grade student from Ignacio Elementary School, empties buckets of water in a race known as the bucket brigade during the Children’s Water Festival on the campus of Fort Lewis College Wednesday. The 21st annual event attracted more than 750 fifth-grade students from 15 schools across Southwestern Colorado. The event is sponsored by the Southwestern Water Conservation District and is an effort to educate students about water issues, the importance of the natural resource and how they can help to protect it. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald.

Valerie Lovett with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, center, demonstrates important elements of water conservation with a game of “River Hop-Scotch” to area fifth-grade students during the Children’s Water Festival on the campus of Fort Lewis College Wednesday. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald.

Dave Grey, retired from the U.S. Geological Survey, plays water wizard during a trivia game for area fifth-grade students during the Children’s Water Festival on the campus of Fort Lewis College Wednesday. The 21st annual event attracted more than 750 fifth-graders. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald.

Members of the Durango Fire Protection District explain how water is delivered to the scene of a fire where there are no hydrants to fifth-graders during the Children’s Water Festival on the campus of Fort Lewis College Wednesday. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald.

Sarah Bashaw, a hatchery technician for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, shows off hatchery-raised-trout to area fifth-grade students during the Children’s Water Festival on the campus of Fort Lewis College Wednesday. The 21st annual event attracted more than 750 fifth-grade students from 15 schools across Southwestern Colorado. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald.

Fifth-grade students from area schools pass buckets of water in a race known as the bucket brigade during the Children’s Water Festival on the campus of Fort Lewis College Wednesday. The 21st annual event attracted more than 750 fifth-grade students from 15 schools across Southwestern Colorado. The event is sponsored by the Southwestern Water Conservation District and is an effort to educate students about water issues. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald.

Valerie Lovett with the Natural Resource Conservation Service demonstrates a river environment to area fifth-grade students during the Children’s Water Festival on the campus of Fort Lewis College Wednesday. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald.

Patrick McBrayer, a fifth-grade student from Riverview Elementary School, throws a bucket of water after a race known as the bucket brigade during the Children’s Water Festival on the campus of Fort Lewis College Wednesday. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald.

Sarah Bashaw, a hatchery technician for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, shows hatchery-raised-trout to area fifth-grade students during the Children’s Water Festival on the campus of Fort Lewis College Wednesday. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald.

Fifth-grade students from Ignacio Elementary School pass buckets of water in a race known as the bucket brigade during the Children’s Water Festival on the campus of Fort Lewis College Wednesday. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald.

Valerie Lovett, a conservation planner with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, demonstrates a river environment to area fifth-grade students during the Children’s Water Festival on the campus of Fort Lewis College Wednesday. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald.

Fifth-grade students from Ignacio Elementary School pass buckets of water in a race known as the bucket brigade during the Children’s Water Festival on the campus of Fort Lewis College Wednesday. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald.