Water Utility Offering Spring Incentive — A Rain Barrel Giveaway

CONNECTCUT — A major state water utility is giving customers a little incentive for spring cleaning and water conservation this season.

Connecticut Water is rewarding customers who make the effort to clean-up their communities with a chance to win a custom rain barrel.

The price of entry is a photo from customers showing themselves picking up litter in their communities loaded to the company’s social media pages.

Three winners will be chosen at random from the entries submitted for a custom rain barrel made from used food transport containers, Connecticut Water officials said. The barrels had been used for shipping pickles and are being repurposed into rain barrels by a Connecticut Water employee who volunteered as a way to promote water conservation.

"At Connecticut Water, we are passionate about the environment while delivering life sustaining, high quality water service to families and communities," Connecticut Water President Maureen Westbrook said. "Although COVID-19 continues to prevent us from getting together for the in-person events like watershed and roadside cleanups that we typically conduct over the course of the year, we still want to celebrate the collective impact that we all can make together by being good stewards of the environment."

Three customers will be chosen at random from those who submit photos to win a rain barrel.

The deadline to submit photos is May 8, which is end of Drinking Water Week 2021.

The rain barrels will be delivered to the winning customers’ homes.

For more information on the contest, visit www.facebook.com/CTWtr

Instructions on how to make rain barrels are also posted to www.ctwater.com/conservation

For information on Connecticut Water’s environmental, social and governance sustainability practices, visit www.ctwater.com/Sustainability to view its 2020 Corporate Sustainability Report.

Connecticut Water Company provides water service to nearly 350,000 people in 60 Connecticut communities and wastewater service to 10,000 people in Southbury, Connecticut.

The towns served are Ashford, Avon, Beacon Falls, Bethany, Bolton, Brooklyn, Burlington, Canton, Chester, Clinton, Colchester, Columbia, Coventry, Deep River, Durham, East Granby, East Haddam, East Hampton, East Windsor, Ellington, Enfield, Essex, Farmington, Griswold, Guilford, Haddam, Hebron, Killingly, Killingworth, Lebanon, Madison, Manchester, Mansfield, Marlborough, Middlebury, Naugatuck, Old Lyme, Old Saybrook, Oxford, Plainfield, Plymouth, Portland, Prospect, Simsbury, Somers, South Windsor, Southbury, Stafford, Stonington, Suffield, Thomaston, Thompson, Tolland, Vernon, Voluntown, Waterbury, Westbrook, Willington, Windsor Locks and Woodstock.