Students learn the importance of water conservation
Tohatchi fifth-graders Teyson Watson, left, and Dominic Johnson look at a presentation on soil contamination and how it spreads during Water Awareness Day at Red Rock Park Tuesday. Schools from all over the McKinley County district spent the morning learning about the importance of water in our community.  © 2011 Gallup Independent / Brian Leddy

By Richard Reyes
Staff writer

GALLUP — Moving from one presentation to the next like forms of precipitation in the water cycle, elementary school students from throughout the district learned about water, energy and ways to conserve them.

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